greykit.poetry — #irony

• 1914 [thomas-hardy] Channel Firing
  Satires of Circumstance

  Gunnery practice in April 1914 wakes the dead, who take it for Judgement Day; God tells them it is only the world making red war redder — and the sound carries inland to Stourton Tower, Camelot, and Stonehenge.

  #narrative#war#irony#1910s
• 1912 [thomas-hardy] The Convergence of the Twain
  Satires of Circumstance

  Hardy's cold meditation on the Titanic and the iceberg, grown in shadowy distance as twin halves of one august event, until the Spinner of the Years said "Now!" and jarred two hemispheres.

  #elegy#disaster#fate#irony#1910s
• 1902 [thomas-hardy] The Man He Killed
  Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses

  A soldier tries to explain why he shot a man he would have stood a drink in any old inn — and gets no further than because he was my foe, quaint and curious as war is.

  #dramatic-monologue#war#irony#1900s