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June 6, 2004, 10:16 AM | #1 |
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Gun-related poetry/literature?
This is an all-out request for help:
I need any gun-themed poems/prose fragments one can find from the late 19th Century onwards for a research I'm doing. British only. The research topic is "Weapons in modern-era British literature: From Kipling and onwards", if you were wondering. |
June 6, 2004, 03:57 PM | #2 |
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You've got your work cut out for you. Starting with Kipling, there's his poem Brown Bess. Kipling also mentions the Martini rifle in his poem Fuzzy Wuzzy. "We sloshed you with Martinis, and it wasn't 'ardly fair". It's also mentioned in The Young British Soldier. If you include artillery, there's his poem Screw Guns. Hope this helps.
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June 6, 2004, 04:03 PM | #3 |
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As you note, I have mentioned Kipling. However, are there any later authors?
I only found this: Ode To A Sten Gun Gnr S.N. Teed You wicked piece of vicious tin! Call you a gun? Don’t make me grin. You’re just a piece of bloated pipe. You couldn’t hit a hunk of tripe. But when you’re with me in the night, I’ll tell you, pal, you’re just all right! Each day I wipe you free of dirt. Your dratted corners tear my shirt. I cuss at you and call you names. You’re much more trouble than my dames. But, boy, do I love to hear you yammer, When you’re spitting lead in a business manner. You conceited pile of salvage junk. I think this prowess talk is bunk. Yet if I want a wall of lead Thrown at some Jerry’s head It is to you I raise my hat; You’re a damn good pal, you silly gat! |
June 6, 2004, 05:50 PM | #4 |
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Check out "Rifleman Dodd" by C.S. Forrester
Good yarn about the adventures of a straggler from the British Army's first rifle regiment fighting with Spanish partisans as a sniper during the Penninsular Wars.
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June 6, 2004, 07:00 PM | #5 |
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It isn't exactly poetry and they are terrorists of the worst kind but the IRA has some jaunty little gun tunes to sing in the pub after knee-capping a "collaborator" or blowing up a train station full of women and children.
"My Little Armalite" comes to mine. In that vein, I vaguely remember learning a song from some Brit camp counselors years ago about a Para who jumps on a bomb in an Irish train station to save a woman and child who had just finished berating him. Anybody know it? |
June 6, 2004, 08:15 PM | #6 |
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Didn't we have a TFL "Poetry Corner" moons ago???
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