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"Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so."
"Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so."
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Challenge: Remembrance (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Challenges
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
Date: Nov 15, 2011
Aperture: f/5,6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/60
Date Uploaded: Nov 16, 2011

When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead

When you see millions of the mouthless dead
Across your dreams in pale battalions go,
Say not soft things as other men have said,
That you'll remember. For you need not so.
Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know
It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow.
Nor honour. It is easy to be dead.
Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto,
“Yet many a better one has died before.”
Then, scanning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you
Perceive one face that you loved heretofore,
It is a spook. None wears the face you knew.
Great death has made all his for evermore.

Charles Sorley
September/October, 1915


Charles Sorley was killed at the age of twenty on 13th October 1915, in the Battle of Loos.

Statistics
Place: 52 out of 66
Avg (all users): 5.1250
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.4194
Avg (non-participants): 4.9846
Views since voting: 456
Views during voting: 206
Votes: 96
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0


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11/28/2011 12:34:02 AM
This has soul. Wonderful image.
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11/26/2011 01:03:02 AM
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:

I'm not giving a very high vote for this ... (etc) ... high marks from me in a FS, but a 5 here.


Hard to credit that a leaf withering in its prime could not be easily perceived as emblematic of this challenge topic.
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11/25/2011 10:05:02 AM
Wonderful image Robt.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/24/2011 11:47:21 PM
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11/22/2011 02:38:12 AM
I'm not giving a very high vote for this, but I want to explain why. I view a photo's relevance to the topic almost exclusively by feel. I sit and look at the photo, and see if it triggers anything in me reminiscent of the prompt. I very rarely consider titles, and if I do, it is as a secondary consideration. To me, a photo should speak and the caption should echo. For me, personally, this doesn't speak Remembrance, or service, or honor, or anything pertaining to the subject. It has to do with what the photo evokes for me, and if I can construe that to pertain to the challenge. This reminds me of the ephemeral, and is gorgeous as a a photo, truly, but for me is not suited to the challenge without the title, which means the photo is not suited to the challenge. Would get high marks from me in a FS, but a 5 here.
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11/20/2011 11:13:27 PM
A beautiful picture indeed.
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11/18/2011 01:23:26 PM
Very interesting line from a cool poem. Thanks for making me look it up. Now I am trying to figure out what this leaf has to do with remembrance. If only I could get inside your head.
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11/18/2011 07:17:52 AM
Interesting take on the challenge.
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