{"id":993,"date":"2016-11-17T14:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?post_type=portfolio&p=993"},"modified":"2016-12-06T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T21:49:29","slug":"allinson-spring-in-the-abruzzi","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?portfolio=allinson-spring-in-the-abruzzi","title":{"rendered":"Allinson — Spring in the Abruzzi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adrian Paul Allinson (1890-1959), Spring in the Abruzzi<\/em> (1930s)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

Allinson was a pacifist during the First World War, and was selected as a government war artist by the War Artists Advisory Committee during World War II. Spring in the Abruzzi <\/em>depicts the beautiful Italian countryside, full of life and prosperity. Many artists and writers during the war, facing the constant bombardment of technology, urbanization, and destruction, romanticized the countryside. In the beginning of Rupert Brooke\u2019s poem shown here, The Soldier, <\/em>he too is connecting with the English countryside to help him brave the horrors of war. Propaganda in wartime was rampant; the image below is just one example of a poster that would have been used to persuade young men to enlist, as was the song, \u201cKeep the Home-Fires Burning,\u201d a song rooted in the honor and duty associated with fighting for one\u2019s country.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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\u201cIf I should die, think only this of me:<\/p>\n

That there\u2019s some corner of a foreign field<\/p>\n

That is forever England. There shall be<\/p>\n

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;<\/p>\n

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,<\/p>\n

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roamed,<\/p>\n

A body of England\u2019s, breathing English air,<\/p>\n

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.”<\/p>\n

Rupert Brooke, The Soldier<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n

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