It is thought his poem Break of Day in the Trenches may have been inspired by In Flanders Fields because of the reference to the poppy. And there is humour as he shares a joke with a rat – which ...

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) takes an ironic interest in a fellow denizen of the trenches. The Bristol-born artist and poet, of Russian Jewish background, saw and wrote with unsentimental acuteness ...