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Blue Remembered Hills.
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Blue Remembered Hills The title of the play - Blue Remembered Hills comes from a line in A.E. Houseman's poem that is quoted at the very end of the play. This poem is used because its ironic, it talks about childhood being "The Happy Highways" when most part of the play has been virtually the opposite. The play was about death, war and destruction. It was set during world war two and the opening line is a young boy imitating gunfire from an aeroplane which is the shot down and crashes. He (Willie) then say's "Then be all dead. Dead, dead, burnt to nothing". A lot of the play is also about how the children are in competition with each other - (Peter)- "Shut thy/thine chops, Willie. I'm number two a'ter Wallace and don't you forget it." The poem gives a very nostalgic view, longing to be a child...
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