<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (February 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> On Receiving News of the War is a poem by Isaac Rosenberg which he wrote after hearing of the outbreak of World War I while in Cape Town, South Africa . Unusually, it takes an anti-war stance in contrast to much of the initial patriotic poetry produced during the early months of the war . </P> <P> This poem was published in 1922, in London . It was one of his most famous poetries, but it did not gain success until 1948 . </P> <P> Snow is a strange white word . No ice or frost Has asked of bud or bird For Winter's cost . </P>

Rosenberg on receiving news of the war analysis