Caressing an old man and painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson, the ribbon tightens 'round my throat
I open my mouth and my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water

Why The Cure video? The song One Hundred Years has haunted my memory since I first heard it way back in about 1987. Since then I have kept it in mind as a key musical expression of the loss of so many in The Great War and how that has translated into a strange but violently beautiful song and also how the band have captured the memory of the war with their visual backdrops to this song while playing live. It is my entry point (aurally and visually) for my personal exploration of the literature, especially the poetry, of this period of history - one which, I argue, was the beginning of the end for humanity. Can we learn from this?

In my opinion, the most significant British poet of the 20th Century

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43172/ancient-history

28 September 1918
Ancient History published in The Nation

https://siegfriedsfellowship.wixsite.com/siegfriedsassoon

The website of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship - a great site

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007mvl9
BBC In Our Time - Sassoon

http://www.wilfredowen.org.uk/

The Wilfred Own Association

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/1404/pat-barker/#

PenguinRandomHouse website page for Part Barker (author of the Regeneration Trilogy)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57195/men-who-march-away

Hardy - Men Who March Away

https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-bannerless-unhating-dead.html

Added 16.09.23
Nice site