These haunting verses witness the devastating impact of armed conflict on humanity. War poems capture the horrors of battle and loss of life.
The Civil War left the South bankrupt and in ruins, and a total of 620,000 men lost their lives, which is more than any other conflict in America’s history. At the end of the war, so-called “Civil War Amendments” were added, which abolished slavery, promised “equal protection under...
This poem is undoubtedly one of the most famous poems to be written in or about World War One. It helped establish McCrae's reputation as one of the many poets who emerged during or shortly after that conflict, alongside the likes of Wiflred Owen, Rupert Brooke, and Robert Graves. It is...
WILFRED AND SIEGFRIED'S PROJECTION OF WAR-PHOBIA AND CONFLICT BETWEEN FRONTLINE'S BRUTAL REALITY AND RELIGION AND SPIRITUALISM Understandably Owen and Sassoon's opinions and their succeeding war poems were distinguished among other contemporary poets for being much more realistic, ... H Omidi 被引量...
The article reports on poets and the civil war in Sri Lanka. It mentions that the ethnic conflict in the country was officially ended in violence in 2009 which was considered by the International Red Cross as an unimaginable human catastrophe and by...
World War I poetry responded to the conflict on a scale previously unseen and reflected a time when soldier-poets wrote verses in the thousands. Some of the early poets wrote about the abstract rhetoric of honor, while later poets, especially those engaged in trench warfare, wrote about tragedy...
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) is often known as a war poet, though he died early on during the conflict and didn’t live to see the sort of combat and conditions that laterpoets of the First World War, such asWilfred Owenand Isaac Rosenberg, experienced and wrote so powerfully about. ...
Naomi Shihab was born to a Palestinian father and an American mother inSt. Louis, Missouri. She and her family moved toJerusalem, her father’s home city, when she was 14 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Amid the tensions that would escalate into theSix-Day Warof 1967, the ...
The Old Norse and Icelandic poets have left us vivid accounts of conflict and peace-making in the Viking Age. Russell G. Poole's editorial and critical analysis reveals much about the texts themselves, the events that they describe, and the culture from which they come. Poole attempts to put...
However,World War Ibrought a flood of new poetry by soldiers who wrote from the trenches. Enormous in scope, the global conflict stirred a tidal wave of patriotism and an unprecedented call to arms.Talented and well-read young people from all walks of life went to the front lines. ...