12/23/2023 0 Comments D day remembrance poem![]() ![]() The last lines of the poem evoke another of the famous remembrance poems, quoting directly from the Ode of Remembrance. In a manner reflective of Dulce et Decorum Est, the poem begins with the latin motto of the Duke of Wellington: ‘Virtutis fortuna comes’ (Fortune is the companion of virtue) as Devanny explains that there both “the lucky and unlucky ones” who have to live with the survivors guilt that comes with returning home from a war when others did not. While serving in The Yorkshire Regiment, and having just returned from a third tour of Afghanistan, Devanny wrote ‘We who remain’ in honour of the comrades he’d lost in service.ĭevanny’s writing shares some of the hallmarks of some of the most well known remembrance day poems. Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.Īnd gave to that wind blowing and that tide! The poem answers that there is no comfort other than the knowledge that the son died doing his duty for his country: ![]() ![]() While the poem is ostensibly about the death of 16-year-old Jack Cornwell VC who died while serving aboard HMS Chester at the Battle of Jutland, Kipling’s own experiences with his son will have affected its writing, further magnified by the similarity of the names Jack and John.Īside from the last, each stanza of the poem opens with the question of a bereaved parent, firstly asking for news of their child, before searching for comfort to sooth the loss of their son. In 1916, shortly after the loss of his son, Kipling published ‘My boy Jack’. Initially he was listed as missing in action, and his grave was not identified until decades after Rudyard Kipling’s own death. Rudyard Kipling lost his only son John in September 1915 during the Battle of Loos. ![]()
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