Poetry Monday and Veterans Day Special!: "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger

For Veterans Day, here's "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" (1916) by Alan Seeger (1882-1916).

For the rest of my playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" by Charles Baudelaire
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" by Victor Hugo

Comments

[bernard11]

Good choice. Well done.

It seems to me that we have, in recent decades, become much more conscious of WWI than we were in say, the 1950's - 70's.

Is that just me?

[Aaron]

Great poem, but I would have loved to hear High Flight for Vet's day.

[XEleison]

Good choice. WWI was a horrible war, but it brought some heartbreakingly good poets to light.