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Quote by Isaac Rosenberg

I am determined that this war, with all its powers for devastation, shall not master my poeting.

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The speaker acknowledges that war has immense power to destroy, but refuses to let it control or define their poetry. “My poeting” means the act of writing poems: it will remain their own chosen activity rather than becoming governed by the war’s violence.

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
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