The Battlefield
The Battlefield - meaning Summary
Transience and Divine Memory
The poem frames sudden, mass death with gentle natural imagery: the fallen drop like flakes, stars, and rose petals. A swift wind brings an unexpected end, scattering lives across a June field. Human sight cannot locate or distinguish the lost amid the seamless grass, emphasizing anonymity and the erasure of individual presence. The closing assertion that God can summon every face offers a comforting counterpoint: divine remembrance restores what human vision cannot.
Read Complete AnalysesThey dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars, Like petals from a rose, When suddenly across the June A wind with fingers goes. They perished in the seamless grass, No eye could find the place; But God on his repealless list Can summon every face.
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