These Fought in Any Case
These Fought in Any Case - context Summary
Response to World War I
Written as a response to World War I and included in Quia Pauper Amavi, Pound’s short poem registers veterans’ sacrifice alongside bitter return to a corrupt, complacent society. It contrasts courage, youth, and frank wartime revelation with postwar deceit: usury, public lying, and moral infamy. The tone moves from admiration for bravery to disillusionment, summing how wartime experience exposed older social and political falsehoods.
Read Complete AnalysesThese fought in any case, and some believing pro domo, in any case ..... Died some, pro patria, walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving came home, home to a lie, home to many deceits, home to old lies and new infamy; usury age-old and age-thick and liars in public places. Daring as never before, wastage as never before. Young blood and high blood, fair cheeks, and fine bodies; fortitude as never before frankness as never before, disillusions as never told in the old days, hysterias, trench confessions, laughter out of dead bellies.
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