Of things ill done and done to others' harm /
The perpetrator of this historical event is symbolized as a dog "jumping the… streets with millions of tin cans / Clanking at his tail," in Louis MacNeice's poem "Brother Fire." During this event, the speaker of a poem is forced to confront "the awareness / Of things ill done and done to others' harm / Which once you took for exercise of virtue," when he encounters a ghost in the streets "after the dark dove with the flickering tongue / Had passed below the horizon of his homing." T.S. Eliot's personal (*) involvement in this event informs the second section of "Little Gidding." The devastation wrought by this event prompts the speaker of a poem to conclude: "After the first death, there is no other." This event is likened to a torrent "dark as the world of man, black as our loss - / Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails / Upon the cross" in Edith Sitwell's "Still Falls the Rain." For 10 points, name this destructive historical event that prompted Dylan Thomas to write "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London."
The perpetrator of this historical event is symbolized as a dog "jumping the… streets with millions of tin cans
the Blitz [or the Battle of Britain]