Poems of the Great War: An Anthology 1914-1918 by Christopher Navratil

By Christopher Navratil

This assortment that includes approximately 50 memorable poems from the very best writers of the time: Rupert Brooke, Siegried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Ivan Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edward Thomas, and lots of extra. Vividly expressing the ravages of battle fought at the entrance strains, their poems are essentially the most robust and poignant works of the 20th century.

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It is designated in the Talmud as birkat ha-shir (“the blessing of song”), which concludes the Hallel recited at the Passover seder; see bPes. 118a. Even earlier, Nishmat apparently served as a conclusion to the morning recitation of the final chapters of the book of Psalms, whose closing verse (“Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord”; Ps. 150:6) it paraphrases; see Heinemann and Petuchowski, Literature of the Synagogue, 9–13. 64 See Schirmann, HPSP 4:708; idem, HPCS, 683–84; and Fleischer, Hebrew Liturgical Poetry, 399–400.

In response, Rabbi Judah offers a parable: To what can the case be compared? To that of a human king who had a beautiful orchard full of fine early fruit and who posted two watchmen there, one lame and the other blind . . So the lame man got astride the blind man and they took the fruits and ate them. After a time, the owner came. Said he to them: Where are the fine early fruits? Said the lame man: Have I then feet to walk with? Said the blind man to him: Have I then eyes to see? What did (the king) do?

106b, cited in Hirsch, p. 156, n. 29. chapter one 34 He put the lame man astride the blind man and judged them as one. 126 For thinkers of a Neoplatonic bent, Rabbi Judah’s solution involved a difficulty. Where he portrayed the re-embodiment of the soul after death as a necessary prerequisite to man’s final judgment and ultimate recompense, the Neoplatonic scheme viewed the reunion of the disembodied soul with her celestial source as the pinnacle of spiritual achievement. In availing themselves of such rabbinic sources, therefore, the Andalusians sometimes engaged in a process of reinterpretation which allowed them to reconcile the classical texts with their own eschatological beliefs.

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