PROSE - Dead Man's Dimp by Isaac Rosenberg

Dead Man's Dump

Isaac Rosenberg

CONTEXT

• British
• Jewish
• Was an officer
• Refused the rank of corporal
• Died April 1918

THEMES

• Futility Of War
• Religeon

ANALYSIS

• 'limbers' - Carriages/wagons which contained barbed wire - like thorns - natural world
• 'crown of thorns,' - martrydom - sacrificed so that others can live

      - betrayed

• 'scepters' - a stick held by monarchs

   - mocking the soldiers - pretense of nobility

• 'flood' - nobody can stop it
• 'brutish men' - de-humanised
• 'crunched' and 'moan' - onomatopoeia - link to 'Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen'
• 'Their mouths shut' - can not speak out - link to 'Regeneration…