Better Far to Pass Away

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Better Far to Pass Away, a poem composed during those days when the usual lifespan of an official at the battle was a meagre six short weeks, brightly depicts a youthful official’s expectancy and concurrence of his own fatality.

Richard Dennys was popular as a pianist, painter, actor, novelist and poet. He was among the casualties in the World War I.

The First World War started in 1914, after the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and ended until 1918. Throughout the warfare, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire or the Central Powers – battled against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States or the Allied Powers. In gratitude to modern military machineries and the terrors of ditch combat, the First World War observed unparalleled levels of bloodshed and devastation. During those times when the warfare was through and the Allied Powers averred triumph, over 16 million people such as soldiers and ordinary men died.

The warfare came across in all the world’s economic inordinate powers, accumulated in two conflicting groups: the Allies – referred on the Triple Entente of the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against the Central Powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Though Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance besides Germany and Austria-Hungary, it did not associate with the Central Powers, as Austria-Hungary had brought the belligerent as oppose to the rules of the alliance. These alliances were restructured and extended as many countries took part during the conflict: Italy, Japan and the United States joined the Allies, while the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria allied with the Central Powers.

The cause for the fight was the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevoon 28 June 1914.
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