Initially, a scene of harmony seems to be broken by a melancholy illustrating the changing seasons and a knowledge that Thomas has captured only a singular beautiful moment in time. As you read more deeply into the poem, it becomes evident that...

A great deal of Edward Thomas’s poetry deals with the intersection between the natural world and the mental arena, often revolving around what he is able to divine from his interactions in physical landscapes. The relationship between these two...

'In my memory / Again and again I see it strangely dark / And vacant of a life but just withdrawn.’

Edward Thomas’s The Chalk Pit suggests a number of ways of considering the correlation between memory and writing. The line is at once visually...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, and the start of the ‘War to end all Wars’, there was a rise in an exclusive kind of poetry, born in the suffering hands of the ‘War poet’. He is often seen in a state of despair, and combines the peaceful...

Marxist ideology states that due to the capitalist regime and enforced social structure within society, complete autonomy is non-existent; Members of society therefore assimilate to the belief that all members of society, including the...