And cowbells do NOT count.
2006-07-10 22:55:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
dumb-bells?
2006-07-11 03:48:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 7⤋
It's a quote from Wilfred Owen's WW1 poem, "Anthem for Doomed Youth".
In the church of England of his day, especially in rural areas, when someone died, a church bell (the passing bell) was rung. In the poem he is saying that all these doomed young men get no individual passing bell, they die like animals being slaughtered, the nearest they get to the passing bell, is the sound of the artillery guns.
As someone else said, this is an echo or reference to the John Donne poem, "No man is an Island" .
2006-07-11 10:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by UKJess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This was in a World War 1 poem. I can't remember the title or poet, it comes from a 16th century religious poem by John Donne apparently.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls,
The bell tolls for thee."
I found the WW1 poetry sticks in my head even though I never did get on with poetry.
2006-07-11 06:07:39 · answer #3 · answered by ehc11 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would think the ringing of shells...
2006-07-11 08:07:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doodlepol, read your wilfred owen
2006-07-11 05:58:59 · answer #5 · answered by the Traveller 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hello is anybody in there?how does this read?
2006-07-11 12:02:51 · answer #6 · answered by changeling 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont understand your question!
2006-07-11 05:58:04 · answer #7 · answered by doodlepol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋