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A far better article about this poem and the backstory: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/29/robert-frost-edward-thomas-poetry https://www.theguardian.

• jeffdavis 8y ago
  I liked both, but I found the Paris Review article more satisfying. This line in particular: "A role too artfully assumed ceases to become a role and instead becomes a species of identity..."
  • jacobush 8y ago
    Yeah, that line hit me like a punch in the guts. Edit; and "It isn’t a wolf in sheep’s clothing so much as a wolf that is somehow also a sheep, or a sheep that is also a wolf." This is to me the spirit of America and can be seen in so many ways it projects its power.