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Still Falls The Rain Edith Sitwell

Still Falls The Rain Poem By Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

Still Falls The Rain Poem By Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

Still falls the rain edith sitwell. Still Falls The Rain Poem by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell. Still falls the Rain. Written in response to the Blitz on London Sitwell described this poem in a letter to Benjamin Britten as one of the proudest achievements of her life and on the evidence of this recording its easy to see why.

Night and Dawn Still falls the Rain Dark as the world of man black as our loss Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. As Caesars laurel crown. On his helpless flesh the tears of the hunted hare.

At the feet of the Starved Man hung upon the Cross. Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one. In Edith Sitwell biography and according to the date of poem this poem Still Falls the Rain is counted as a war poem especially Second World War.

Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails. Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails. Still falls the Rain Dark as the world of man black as our loss Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails.

With its use of repetition insistent rhyme and Christian imagery of suffering the poem has a relentless quality like the bombardment and endurance which inspired it. Still falls the Blood from the Starved Mans wounded Side. Nurtures its greed that worm with the brow of Cain.

Her writing of the poem reflects her courage and faith. With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat. Still falls the Rain With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer-beat In the Potters Field and the sound of the impious feet On the Tomb.

With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is. Read Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell poemStill falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of man black as our loss--- Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails.

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Still Falls the Rain is a meditation on suffering in the world.

Still falls the Blood from the Starved Mans wounded Side. Still falls the Rain. Edith Sitwell reads Still Falls the Rain. Read Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell poemStill falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of man black as our loss--- Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails. With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is. Under the Rain the sore and the gold are as one. As Caesars laurel crown. Still Falls The Rain Poem by Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell. Still falls the Rain With a sound like the pulse of the heart that is changed to the hammer beat In the Potters Field and the sound of the impious feet.


Still Falls the Rain The Raids 1940. Still falls the Rain. During the London Blitz in 1940 Edith Sitwell wrote Still Falls the Rain perhaps her most famous poem a Good Friday poem that ponders human suffering and the salvation of the soul a harbinger of Dame Ediths conversion to Catholicism. Dark as the world of man black as our loss. Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails. Still Falls the Rain by Dame Edith Sitwell. Still falls the Blood from the Starved Mans wounded Side.

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