Poem

For Isaac Rosenberg

Title	For Isaac Rosenberg
Author	Frank Sewell

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Human Rights Have No Borders: Voices of Irish Poets	1998	Print Anthology	View Details
Out in the Open	1997	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3081

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Out in the Open
Date of Publication	1997
Publisher	Cló Iar-Chonnachta (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	241, 243

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	War
War / Genocide Referenced	War: First World War War: Bosnian War
Irish Context	Other Specific Irish place or place-name mentioned
Languages	English
Original Language	Irish Irish
Original Poem	Do Isaac Rosenberg
Original Author	Cathal Ó Searcaigh
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	This elegy honours Isaac Rosenburg, an Anglo-Jewish poet whose poems detail his experience as a soldier in WWI. In contrast to the horrors witnessed by Rosenburg, the speaker-poet reflects on his peaceful existence in Donegal, deeply aware of his relative privilege. Similar to other poems by Cathal Ó Searcaigh, the horror of war is juxtaposed with a personal love story in this poem. There is also an explicit reference in the poem to a contemporaneous war in Europe, most likely the Yugoslav Wars.

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