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Break of Day in the Trenches
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Poetry
His Works
- Isaac Rosenberg may be remembered as a Jewish-English poet, or a poet of war, but his poetry stretches beyond those narrow categories.
- Rosenberg's status as an English poet is still debated
- He was a Jewish poet, an English poet, a war poet, a painter-poet?
- In his brief career, Rosenberg created a small selection of poems and a great many questions.
In The Trenches
- Throughout his twenty-one months in the trenches he maintained a correspondence with Edward Marsh, Gordon Bottomley, and Laurence Binyon, all of whom took an interest in his poetry.
- His trench poems went through many drafts which he sent home to his sister Annie to be typed and then forwarded to his friends.
- Despite the difficult conditions under which he worked, he produced remarkable and powerful work
Education
- Rosenberg attended school brieflyHe began to work as an engraver's apprentice
- Rosenberg attended the Slade Art SchoolHe studied alongside David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth and Dora Carrington.
The 1st World War
- Rosenberg returned to England in October 1915 and enlisted in the army.
- He was assigned to the 12th Suffolk Folk Regiment
- Private Rosenberg was later transferred to the 11th Battalion.
- He was sent to the Somme on the Western Front in France where he was killed at dawn on April 1, 1918
Analysis
Background
Break of Day
in the Trenches
Thank You For Listening
Early Life
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
http://www.poemhunter.com/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/
http://movehimintothesun.wordpress.com/
Isaac Rosenberg
- Rosenberg was born on November 25, 1890 in Bristol.
- His parents, Dovber and Hacha Rosenberg, were Jewish immigrants from Russia.
- They moved into the streets of London's Jewish ghetto
- Rosenberg's parents were forced to work as itinerants
By: Andre Quest & Vincent Fragomeni
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