num_pages: 43
description: This fills an important gap in the canon of Peake's works in print. Although written after the Second World War, the poem uses it for its theme. While its central characters, the sailor and the child are symbolic, this was not consciously planned. Peake said of the poem that "it shows man's continuing hopefulness in adversity".
language: English
title: The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
titlecomplete: The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb
genres: War, Poetry
ratings_count: 18
places: London, England
publisher: Colin Smythe Limited