Chumblywumbly
20-12-2007, 12:58
Gies yer help!
I studied a poem back when I was in high school and I'm trying to find it again; to no avail. I was a-wondering if the literati of NS:G could lend a helping hand...
It was about a group of humans in a post-apocalyptic/post-nuclear land, survivors of a terrible war. I remember distinctly there being a line (possibly the first line, or in the first stanza) that went something like:
It's been a year since the radio fell silent
Anyways, the main gist of the poem was about the return of the horses; the poem may very well have 'horse' or 'horses' in the title. The narrator of the poem suggests that the horses left humanity when we started a great war, and then returned, forgiving us, 'allowing' us to bridle them and once again till the soil, etc. A beautiful concept, and a beautiful poem.
It's, obviously, an anti-war poem, and I have a funny feeling it was written by an East European sometime after WW2. Pretty sure it was a male author, and I think there were only two or three stanzas. If anyone knows the poem, or can point me in a useful direction, I'd be eternally grateful. If you studied English at high school in the UK during the 1990's, you may well have studied the poem as well.
Who knows, there may be a cookie in it for you.
Thanks for indulging my rather random request.
I studied a poem back when I was in high school and I'm trying to find it again; to no avail. I was a-wondering if the literati of NS:G could lend a helping hand...
It was about a group of humans in a post-apocalyptic/post-nuclear land, survivors of a terrible war. I remember distinctly there being a line (possibly the first line, or in the first stanza) that went something like:
It's been a year since the radio fell silent
Anyways, the main gist of the poem was about the return of the horses; the poem may very well have 'horse' or 'horses' in the title. The narrator of the poem suggests that the horses left humanity when we started a great war, and then returned, forgiving us, 'allowing' us to bridle them and once again till the soil, etc. A beautiful concept, and a beautiful poem.
It's, obviously, an anti-war poem, and I have a funny feeling it was written by an East European sometime after WW2. Pretty sure it was a male author, and I think there were only two or three stanzas. If anyone knows the poem, or can point me in a useful direction, I'd be eternally grateful. If you studied English at high school in the UK during the 1990's, you may well have studied the poem as well.
Who knows, there may be a cookie in it for you.
Thanks for indulging my rather random request.