![]() When Spring brings back blue days and fair. American poet Alan Seeger is best remembered for I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a poem that foreshadowed Seegers death in battle during. Throughout the poem, Owen used first hand experiences to detail the events of war that burned into his brain and haunted him for the rest of his life. ![]() When Spring comes back with rustling shade He died in heroic action at the Battle of the Somme, just weeks after writing his prophetic poem. It was written in 1916 by Alan Seeger-a patriotic Harvard graduate who volunteered to fight for the French in the early days of WWI, before America had entered the war. The incomparably beautiful poem reference by President Macron. ![]()
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