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John L. Sheppard examines the way in which community sentiment and poetic sentiment about war waxes and wanes over time. Sheppard uses parabolas to demonstrate the flow of opinion.
Author's introduction: There are some phrases, lines, stanzas, which, stuck in the back of the mind, slip out from time to time, to interrupt the scene of reverie. And sometimes what 'appears' is not the actual words, but the shadow, the spirit of a poem. In this article I will discuss some poems that especially appeal to me.