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Annotated by:
- Coulehan, Jack
- Date of entry: Oct-27-1999
Summary
This poem begins: "Move him into the sun." It has snowed overnight, but now it grows warmer. The sun has always awakened him before, but will it now? "Think how it wakes the seeds." It even gave life to "the clays of a cold star." Surely, there must be more warmth, more life, and more meaning than this. "O what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" [14 lines]
Primary Source
Poems of Wilfred Owen
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Place Published
London
Edition
1963
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