Who is Isaac Rosenberg
Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet and artist. His Poems from the Trenches are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War.Early life
Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol, the second of six children and the eldest son (his twin brother died at birth) of his parents, Barnett (formerly Dovber) and Hacha Rosenberg, who were Lithuanian Jewish immigrants to Britain from Dvinsk (now in Latvia). In 1897, the family moved to Stepney, a poor district of the East End of London, and one with a large Jewish community. Isaac Rosenberg attended St. Paul's Primary S...
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Isaac Rosenberg Poems
- Dead Man's Dump
The plunging limbers over the shattered track
Racketed with their rusty freight,
Stuck out like many crowns of thorns,
And the rusty stakes like sceptres old ... - Through These Pale Cold Days
Through these pale cold days
What dark faces burn
Out of three thousand years,
And their wild eyes yearn, ... - Spring
I walk and wonder
To hear the birds sing,
Without you my lady
How can there be Spring? ... - At Night
Crazed shadows, from no golden body
That I can see, embrace me warm ;
All is purple and closed
Round by night's arm. ... - In War
Fret the nonchalant noon
With your spleen
Or your gay brow,
For the motion of your spirit ...
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Bondiancw: rare shout-out for oscar isaac's cardcounter the chatter podcast: spy movies and the oscars with alyssa rosenbergWar_poets: 19 march 1918 isaac rosenberg and the 1st kings own royal lancasters march from reserve into the firing line near arras.
Fbherald: what's going on "around the bend" spotted at the grand opening of the travis street splash pad, former rosenberg council members amanda barta and isaac davila, former rosenberg parks & recreation director darren mccarthy, who for years pushed for a community splash pad...
War_poets: 8 march 1918 isaac rosenberg writes to winifreda seaton ‘if i am lucky and come off undamaged, i mean to put all my innermost experiences into the ‘unicorn’. i want it to symbolize the war and all the devastating forces let loose by an ambitious and unscrupulous will.’
War_poets: 7 march 1918 isaac rosenberg writes to edward marsh about seeing the most recent volume of 'georgian poetry' 'i saw the book about 3 months ago & not for long. i was going into the trenches then.'
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