By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Edward Thomas’s poem ‘Rain’ was written in 1916, while Thomas was fighting in the trenches. ‘Rain’ is about Thomas’s experience of sitting in a hut all night alone, listening to the Rain falling and meditating on his death and on the fates of his fellow soldiers in the First ... Read more
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