“Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.”
Source: Selected Poems
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Starving for fat fish or mice…
Or backyard love?”
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“Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?”
"On Passing the New Menin Gate" (1927-1928)
Collected Poems (1949)
Context: Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate, —
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own.
Paid are its dim defenders by this pomp;
Paid, with a pile of peace-complacent stone,
The armies who endured that sullen swamp.
“The boy was dead eager, which could soon lead to plain dead.”
Mat, about Olver
(11 October 2005)