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Is my team ploughing,” the focus is placed upon a conversation between a dead man and one of his friends from his previous life (Housman 18). “XXII: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread;” meanwhile, expresses an emotional wonder discovered in the eyes of a passing soldier (Housman 15). Both the ambiguous quality of the dead man’s last question (18 ll. 25-26) in poem XXVII and the nature of the chance encounter in XXII stand to exemplify the subtle undercurrent of Housman’s own enigmatic sexuality.
“Is my team ploughing” is in the form of “the primitive ballad metres, which Housman revived,” and primarily “employed for a poetry not of action but of introspection” (Scott-Kilvert 25). The piece begins by the dead man’s questioning of such trivialities as his “team” (l. 1) that he “used to drive” (l. 2), and “football” (l. 9) being played “Along the ...

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