When was perhaps by vera brittain written

Recent Posts from This Community. Post a new comment Error. Post a new comment. Preview comment. NEXA - lovely imagery! Paige - so poignant! The loss of life in the first World war was horrific, she wrote of the terrible waste of young lives in "Testament of youth" Mankind hasn't learnt much has it.

Ali Tajmir-Riahi - This is a lovely write, nice images and imagery, I like the opening, perhaps some day the sun will shine again Society expects certain mourning customs. But I think there is a quiet spiritual presence felt even when we can't see a person whose no longer there.

I feel this in your poem. Suspire - I like this piece a lot. Very vivid, and telling of the hardships of loss and moving on. But why should the obligation to choose complete absolute nothing be soo absolute in a place of beauty. Perhaps, you should dare to see that the 'I love you' can never die, and that it only does so if you so choose. Perhaps , pain and sorrow should spare you from breaking a so noble heart.

Wishing you a very happy new year Thank you for posting this. I love Vera Brittain and her writing. I so wish there were a recording of her reading her own poetry. Tuesday, December 22, Perhaps. The Battalion is back in the trenches now and I am writing in the dugout that I share with the doctor…. Through the door I can see little mounds of snow that are the parapets of trenches, a short stretch of railway line, and a very brilliant full moon.

I wonder what you are doing. Asleep, I hope—or sitting in front of a fire in blue and white striped pyjamas? I should so like to see you in blue and white pyjamas. Roland Leighton. Land on Christmas Day. So I only have to wait for the morrow with such patience as I can manage.

On Monday December 27 th she received news of Roland:. I sprang up joyfully, thinking to hear in a moment the dear dreamed-of tones of the beloved voice.

But the telephone message was not from Roland Brittain is an exceptional writer and this shows all throughout the poem with her use of punctuation, imagery, allegory, and many other literary aspects. The astonishing poem, Perhaps by Vera Brittain is engaging and intuitive to the reader. The reader can interpret this by of the use of the word Perhaps, which were in the first line of every stanza.

Reading Perhaps and understanding the way Brittain is with her words could remind readers of a loved one that might have passed away, also reminding them of the way they have accepted their loved one's death or even how to.