...courage of her dead son. At the close of all this pious make-believe, the Colonel " thought how ' Jack," cold-footed, useless swine. Had panicked down the...home ; and how, at last, he died. Blown to small bits "; or, again, as in " Blighters," where the sentimentality of London is contrasted with the reality...

...courage of her dead son. At the close of all this pious make-believe, the Colonel ' thought how " Jack," cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the...home ; and how, at last, he died, Blown to small bits ' ; or, again, as in ' Blighters,' where the sentimentality of London is contrasted with the reality...

...make-believe, the Colonel l96 Georgian Poetry l9ll-l922: The Critical Heritage thought how 'Jack,' cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the...that night the mine Went up at Wicked Corner; how he's tried To get sent home; and how, at last, he died, Blown to small bits; or, again, as in 'Blighters',...

...And folded up the letter that she'd read. "The Colonel writes so nicely." ... He thought how 'Jack', cold-footed, useless swine, Had panicked down the...to care Except that lonely woman with white hair. (11. 1-3, 13-18) Gerald Linderman has written that such silence may be found in letters written home...

...woman about her son's 'heroic' death, keeping the unpleasant truth from her: 'He thought how "Jack", cold-footed, useless swine,/ Had panicked down the...that night the mine/ Went up at Wicked Corner; how 1 1 Sassoon, Comments on 'Absolution', p. 15. 1 2 Bergonzi, Heroes ' Twilight, p. 1 05. 13 John Wilmot,...