Up the Line to Death

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Schuklenk, U. Health Care Professionals Are Under No Ethical Obligation to Treat COVID-19 Patients . 2020 April 1st Journal of Medical Ethics Blog

Most of the soldiers writing poetry, of course, were educated men, which means that most of them were among the young officers, which means that most of them died. The end of the book consists of a potted biography of each of the contributors, some of whom survived the war and went on to publish professionally, but many of whom went on to other careers and so far as I know were never stirred to verse again. Those who were killed are marked with an asterisk, but their biographies are rarely any shorter. Shone, E. More than 850 health and social care workers have died of Covid in England and Wales since the pandemic began January 27 2021 The Scotsman Maybe I've been spoiled, because my first sustained exposure to war poetry was in Hibberd and Onions' The Winter of the World, a comprehensive collection of First World War poetry which also managed to arrange things with a readable flow and provide unobstructive biographical context. But Gardner's older collection holds, and the uncomfortable truth of war poetry will likely never wane. There are probably many reasons for our continued fascination; Gardner's introduction speculates on some of them, including the immediacy of the lines from poets who didn't know if they would live long enough to write revisions, its own incomprehensibility to us in a peaceful time and our futile attempts to understand such horror, and the admiration for gentle men who, though they despised the war, could find the nobility of man in their war (pg. xx). Excellent. An extensive, highly-impressive and meticulously-researched piece of work which covers every conceivable angle on First World War poetry. Very thorough. I particularly liked the amount of insightful and detailed commentary notes with the poems. Berger, D. 26 July 2020. Please stop calling healthcare workers ‘heroes’. It’s killing us Sydney Morning Herald.Base Detail’s is a satirical poem on the attitudes of the senior officers. The title is a pun, base meaning headquarters and the alternative despised or worthless. It was over the last seven or eight months that I have read this extraordinary collection of poems brought together by Brian Gardner and introduced with a short foreword by Edmund Blunden. And these poems do not take you to a better place but make you grateful for the courage of these men and sorrow for the waste of their sacrifice. In this collection the well known sit alongside the totally unknown, the brilliant and sparkling talents alongside the lost and wasted. It is an almost unbearable wading through the horror and tragedy of the 'Great War' expressed in hope, hell and humour in if not equal measure then certainly in notiecable presence.

The moral injury of avoidable harm to health and social care workers cuts deep and the scars will persist, as the scars of the first world war lingered into the twenty-first century. Reflect on that when you are next tempted to prod “our healthcare heroes” into harm’s way with your self-serving cheers. Jud Elliott II is a failed Harvard history masters student in 2059. Bored with his job as a law clerk, he takes up a position with the Time Service as a Time Courier. After an introductory course, Jud shunts up and down the time line ("up the line" is travel into the past; "down the line" is forward time travel, but only to "now-time," Jud's present of 2059) as a guide for tourists visiting ancient and medieval Byzantium/ Constantinople. Schuklenk, U. What healthcare professionals owe us: why their duty to treat during a pandemic is contingent on personal protective equipment (PPE). Journal of Medical Ethics. 2020; 46 7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106278 Up the Line (1969) is a time travel novel by American science fiction author Robert Silverberg. The plot revolves mainly around the paradoxes brought about by time travel and is considered an example of the more sexually-permissive era of late 1960s American science-fiction, a reflection of the counterculture of its day. [1] It was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1969 [2] and a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1970 but lost to Ursula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness both times. [3]I liked this very much as it suits AS studies very well. There was a clear explanation of each poem leaving the student to interpret such things as attitude which is vital in promoting independent thinking. I would put it on the shared area at school and set it as reading. The activities are effective preparation for the kind of comparative approach required in the final paper. I liked the straightforward approach which provides a very good resource for teachers and students without simplifying it or focusing on technique without meaning. I liked the contemporary photographs and sketches. I liked the URL references which will enable independent research by the students. It will be supportive for teachers and students, particularly as preparation for lessons. Anything that supports and promotes independent thinking is essential for AS and A2 and this certainly does that. I think it matches the specification very wellindeed. C Allison, Senior Examiner & Peer Reviewer

In July 2020, I called for an immediate end in Australia to the rhetoric of “healthcare workers as heroes,” identifying it as a damaging distraction from the legal and moral imperative to accord healthcare workers the same standards of occupational safety enjoyed by workers in other industries, such as construction or mining. [14] That rhetoric has now largely abated in Australia, helped here by the extreme paucity of covid cases since October, though we are no nearer achieving a safe workplace for healthcare workers. Despite this, I can definitely appreciate the poems in here. I'm not a huge fan of long poems (of which there are a few), and obviously you're not going to like every single poem, but some really stand out for me and encapsulate the feeling of war and create such a realistic surrounding. Also, the gradual progression of patriotism to stoicism, to general criticism of the war is interesting as it portrays how blinded we were as a nation. I think reading this with the 21st Century hindsight we possess creates a huge irony in which Gardner attempts to further this with his choice of poems.

This must all be very English, as you say, Ed. I don't think that the Great War has the same cultural freight in the States, not least because American involvement amounted to 18 months. The poem consists of a single ten-lined stanza, with predictable jogging rhythm. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EE. The final couplet is rhyming to provide a neat, humorous resolution. Sassoon was a conscientious objector in WW1, committed for a time in a hospital outside Edinborough. He seemed to sense the bare truth in war and was driven to write with an art that is so direct and compelling that it's easy to miss the fact that it's also eloquent.

Up the Line to Death now possesses only historical interest. A set text for many years in our secondary schools, it symptomised a desire to exploit the poetry of the Great War for political purposes. However noble those purposes may occasionally be, they damage and devalue those writers whose work does indeed amount to 'great poetry in [nearly] any company'. Berger, D. Our infection-control response is broken. We need a new model – and fast August 29 2020 Sydney Morning Herald.When he meets and falls in love with the 'marvelous transtemporal paradox called Pulcheria' - his own multi-great-grandmother - Jud succumbs to the lure of the past, creates irreparable paradoxes, and faces the inescapable clutches of the Time Patrol.