Cenotaph

The poem the cenotaph is about the aftermath of a battle and the lingering spirits of the fallen soldiers, this being said it is true that the poem reveal itself on an even deeper level as the literal meaning of the word cenotaph is an empty tomb. Since 1919 a great focus of the “Remembrance Day” in Britain is the London Cenotaph, which bares the inscription, which appears through out the poem: “The Glorious Dead”. This means that a lot of the poem is about this monument and makes reference to it.
The poem lines vary in length with 10 words rhyming with “dead” however the rhyming and line length is made unpredictable in some parts through the poem to heighten the seriousness and focus attraction to the meaning of the poem rather than the rhyming and rhythm of the poem.
This is mentioned in the talk of the soldiers “wild sweet bood” and importantly there “wonderful youth”. The ones who are left to grow old and have been denied there loved ones due to the starving grasp of war are mentioned when “desolate” is mentioned in reference to them. The history of the London Cenotaph is mention with the reference to the astounding cover of the London Cenotaph in wreaths on the remembrance day of 1919 with “violets, roses and laurels” which were placed at the foot of the London