Tag: Lest We Forget

Literature

A Short Analysis of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Recessional’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Although the phrase ‘lest we forget’ is now closely associated with Remembrance Sunday and war remembrance more generally, it actually originated in a poem written almost twenty years before the outbreak of the First World War: Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Recessional’. Before we offer a summary […]