First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches'

This seminar is on the poet Isaac Rosenberg, and is based around his poem 'Break of Day in the Trenches'. It is recommended that the seminar Introduction to WWI Poetry is studied first as this will help put Rosenberg into perspective with his contemporaries.

Start with the standard edition of the poem 'Break of Day in the Trenches'.