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The speaker sides with the second traveller, concluding that truth is a difficult thing to get hold of…ĭiscover more classic poetry with these birthday poems, short poems about death, and these classic war poems. For the first traveller in this poem, truth is a rock and a mighty fortress then, according to another traveller, it’s a phantom, a shadow, as insubstantial as the wind. This plan works well – until war breaks out… A good poem to read in the era of fake news and ‘post-truth’.īest-known for his novel The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was also a poet. In this narrative poem, Kipling (1865-1936) tells us about how Truth shrank from the world, letting her sister, Fiction, go out into the world instead. Looked on the world, but, hearing how it lied, Truth, rising from the bottom of her well, Once on a time, the ancient legends tell,

This poem takes the truth of a heartfelt passion as its starting-point for a meditation upon the helplessness of the lover.

Housman, ‘ If Truth in Hearts That Perish’.įew poets wrote more powerfully about true love than Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), who himself harboured a long unrequited affection for someone who did not return his love.

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