Define druid-sardonic-parapet

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'Break of Day in the Trenches'

Isaac Rosenberg

The darkness crumbles away

It is the same old druid Time as ever,

Only a live thing leaps my hand,

A queer sardonic rat,

As I pull the parapet's poppy

To stick behind my ear.

Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew

Your cosmopolitan sympathies,

Now you have touched this English hand

You will do the same to a German

Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure

To cross the sleeping green between.

It seems you inwardly grin as you pass

Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,

Less chanced than you for life,

Bonds to the whims of murder,

Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,

The torn fields of France.

What do you see in our eyes

At the shrieking iron and flame

Hurled through still heavens?

What quaver -what heart aghast?

Poppies whose roots are in men's veins

Drop, and are ever dropping;

But mine in my ear is safe,

Just a little white with the dust.

Define: druid, sardonic, parapet.

1. Consider these lines:

A. "What do you see in our eyes At the shrieking iron and flame Hurled through still heavens? What quaver-what heart aghast?"

B. What romantic poem is this reminiscent of? How are the tones of the two poems similar?

C. What irony/absurdity of war is explored with the appearance and reflection on the rat?

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