Railways were crucial to British military strategy in the Anglo-Boer War, attracting devastating onslaughts from the Republican side. The technological capability of the railway system brought a tactically cogent response from Boer forces, employing skill, ingenuity and mobility to attack Kitchener's strangulatory blockhouse system, linked by the railways. Railway poetry generated by the conflict provides telling insight into shifting relations between the exigencies of war, technology, nature and humane values. Despite an overtly one-sided British perspective, bent on victory, the poems presented here set innovative railway technology in the context of war and nature and, paradoxically, try to probe the relations between war and humane values.

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英布战争铁路诗

铁路在英布战争中对英国的军事战略至关重要，吸引了共和党方面的毁灭性攻击。铁路系统的技术能力给布尔人军队带来了战术上令人信服的反应，他们运用技能、独创性和机动性来攻击由铁路连接的基奇纳的扼杀碉堡系统。冲突产生的铁路诗歌提供了对战争、技术、自然和人文价值观之间不断变化的关系的深刻洞察。尽管英国人的观点明显片面，一心想要胜利，但这里呈现的诗歌在战争和自然的背景下设定了创新的铁路技术，并且矛盾的是，试图探讨战争与人文价值之间的关系。