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21:1, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth". The poem is written from the point of view of a soldier (or soldiers) in France wondering about death; since they have no chance of gaining entry into any mythological afterlife (or even the Christian Paradise), they call on the
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Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action
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Poets of World War One. Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg
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"A New Heaven"
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scholar
JSTOR
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Wilfred Owen
Surrey
Witley Camp
Revelation
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Styx
Dominic Hibberd
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Romantic
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Poets of World War One. Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg
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