An Eton Poetry Book The section ends with Brooke's "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England". The editors introduce this section by admitting that "the trochaic metre has not by itself played an important part in our literature ... Tennyson wrote 'Locksley Hall' in trochaics because Mr Hallam told him that the English people liked the metre, but it is very doubtful if he was right." There are fewer poems in this section by the best known names in English poetry, but Alington and Lyttelton include William
This Is Only a Test That's half the album in less than a week. I never write that fast! Each song stands alone as a snapshot from this kid's life. The story doesn't unfold like a narrative. It's more like a collage." According to Caterer, the album's main character is not autobiographicial, but "definitely a creation. He's not me. Well...he's similar to me, but he's not limited by the realities of my own experience. I created a character that basically has the same view of the world that I had when I was in high school, but he’s his own person and he does some