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{{Poem|author=Siegfried Sassoon|date=1917}}
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{{center|''(Hindenburg Line, April 1917)''{{refn|Named after Field Marshal [[w:Paul von Hindenburg|Paul von Hindenburg]], this [[w:Hindenburg Line|defensive line]] of trenches, barbed wire, and gun emplacements defined the Western front of the European war.}}}}
{{center|''(Hindenburg Line, April 1917)''{{refn|Named after Field Marshal [[w:Paul von Hindenburg|Paul von Hindenburg]], this [[w:Hindenburg Line|defensive line]] of trenches, barbed wire, and gun emplacements defined the Western front of the European war.}}}}
Groping along the tunnel,{{refn|The poem begins ''[[in media res]]'', like an [[Epic Poetry|epic]]. The atmosphere seems to allude to Dante’s ''Inferno'', explicitly stated in the closing line of the poem.}} step by step,
Groping along the tunnel,{{refn|The poem begins ''[[in media res]]'', like an [[Epic Poetry|epic]]. The atmosphere seems to allude to Dante’s ''Inferno'', explicitly stated in the closing line of the poem.}} step by step,
He winked his prying torch with patching glare
He winked his prying torch with patching glare