DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Lessons of the War" by Henry Reed Originally read: July 10, 2013 More information about the Poet: Henry Reed "Reed's most famous poem is 'Lessons of the War,' a witty parody of British army basic training during World War II, which suffered from a lack of equipment at that time." So the poem makes sense to me a little bit more now.  There's a whole lot of technique going on in here...an overuse of it -- epigraph in Latin, a regards in the beginning, a part one without a part two.  And that's not even getting into the poem.  From the language, yes, there's a sense of a dry parody as well.   But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Past me didn't do this, but I think the translation to the latin is " U ntil recently I have fought duels and led a soldiering life, not without glory"  or " For ladies's love I late was fit, /  And good success my warfare blest, "  which is a quote from...