The Falling Leaves
โThe Falling Leavesโ mourns WWI’s toll, likening soldiers to leaves in a poignant critique of war’s devastating impact.
Margaret Postgate Cole is an English poet who wrote detective stories and her husband, including The Death of a Millionaire and Burglars in Bucks. She also wrote a biography of her husband, G. D. H. Cole.
โThe Falling Leavesโ mourns WWI’s toll, likening soldiers to leaves in a poignant critique of war’s devastating impact.
โThe Veteranโ by Margaret Postgate Cole is an anti-war poem. It uses an encounter with a young veteran to speak on the damages war can inflict.ย