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[dundas]

The Death of a Soldier

Each piper's note. Each salute. Each pallbearer's step. Each hearse. Each chaplain. All painful reminders to the death of a fallen solider. Death is unlike any other event in the world; It stands for the unique, for the irrevocable, for the irreversible, for something that can't be repeated. Death gives meaning to all those images and phrases; all other applications for such images and phrases are but metaphors at best, dead words at worst. Death give its brute, non-metaphoric meaning to the point of no return. Each death is an irreparable loss, a loss forever, and eventually a loss of a world.
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My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well

[[dundas]]

The Death of a Soldier

Each piper's note. Each salute. Each pallbearer's step. Each hearse. Each chaplain. All painful reminders to the death of a fallen solider. Death is unlike any other event in the world; It stands for the unique, for the irrevocable, for the irreversible, for something that can't be repeated. Death gives meaning to all those images and phrases; all other applications for such images and phrases are but metaphors at best, dead words at worst. Death give its brute, non-metaphoric meaning to the point of no return. Each death is an irreparable loss, a loss forever, and eventually a loss of a world.
_________________
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well

[Lake]

Each piper's note. Each salute. Each pallbearer's step. Each hearse. Each chaplain. All painful reminders to the death of a fallen solider.

The beginning caught my attention and I wanted to read more. However the following passage, I feel, goes a kind of generalized. I want to see how the death of a solider is different than other deaths and to be more specific what event or battlefield ( can be referenced) caused the death of a solider. This maybe just me.

Am I getting too critical? Please let me know.

Best

[[Lake]]

Each piper's note. Each salute. Each pallbearer's step. Each hearse. Each chaplain. All painful reminders to the death of a fallen solider.

The beginning caught my attention and I wanted to read more. However the following passage, I feel, goes a kind of generalized. I want to see how the death of a solider is different than other deaths and to be more specific what event or battlefield ( can be referenced) caused the death of a solider. This maybe just me.

Am I getting too critical? Please let me know.

Best

[Champagne]

[[Champagne]]

[ericcoliu]

I agree with the comments Lake and Champagne made.

[[ericcoliu]]

I agree with the comments Lake and Champagne made.

[dundas]

[[dundas]]

[dundas]

[[dundas]]

[非马]

Interesting discussions. I agree with Lake's point. And Eric is quite right, we need more poets like Owen.

By the way, the title might be shortened to "The Death of a Soldier" because the word "fallen" usually means "death".

[[FAFAFA]]

Interesting discussions. I agree with Lake's point. And Eric is quite right, we need more poets like Owen.

By the way, the title might be shortened to "The Death of a Soldier" because the word "fallen" usually means "death".

[clair]

[[clair]]

[dundas]

[[dundas]]

[dundas]

Thanks for the comment. You're right about the title. I've changed it.

I also wrote a companion piece, The death of an Enemy Combatant, to the story above.
_________________
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well

[[dundas]]

Thanks for the comment. You're right about the title. I've changed it.

I also wrote a companion piece, The death of an Enemy Combatant, to the story above.
_________________
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well