Photo Credits: By Canadian Official photographer - http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/38/665/large_000000.jpgThis photograph CO 2252 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63250920
The Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 was one of the most horribly devastating moments of World War I. Soldiers fought through mud, rain, and death which unfourtionately shows how chaotic the war truly was. I chose to include this battle in my timeline beacuse it shows the scene where Isaac Rosenburg was writing and taking inspiration from. Even though the war was gruesome and marked with destruction, writers like Rosenburg still found a way to notice the small flashes of life and goodness through it all. In his poem, "Returning, We Hear the Larks," he describes soilders hearing the sound of birds. This moment is so simple compared to everything that was going on around them but it shows how even in the worst possible situation, something like a bird can show them that beauty still exists in the world. I think that was a turning point in the poem and proves that the simplest things can bring us back to feeling human.