DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here:  "Here Dead We Lie" by A.E. Housman The version I linked is from the poets.org website which is a quatrain;  However, I analyzed a different version which is in two quatrains.  I actually like this version better because there's more dramatic tension in the line breaks. "Here dead we lie/ Because we did not choose" ends the line with a blame mentality.  We didn't choose to die, but something else caused us to die, "To live and shame the land / From which we sprung."  The first line of the two lines has more of a weird overall feel until we get to the specific in the next line of where they "sprung" or originated from.  This brings a sense of nationalism and patriotism in a simple form. The first line of the first stanza is the outcome of a mixture of emotions: blame in the second line, then a bigger reason as the purpose in the third line, and the last line focusing on the specific, but unnamed place in which these people...