"My Body was a Poem:" Jean Arasanayagam's Poetic Body as Witness and Judge in Sri Lanka's Ethnic Conflict Jean Arasanayagam's poetry has shed light on the trauma enacted in Sri Lanka's nearly 30-year civil war (most notably in Apocalypse '83), ending officially in 2009 by the violent...
Yes, I rejoiced when I knew that he was standing before the foe’s cannons; and when the news of one great conflict after another spread like a dark cloud over the country, with sorrowful tranquillity, I lay in wait for the lightning-stroke which, bursting from the cloud, should dart i...
TENNYSON'S "ULYSSES"-A RE-INTERPRETATION E. J. CHIASSON I T has long been recognized that Tennyson's Idylls are, among other things, the allegorical presentation of ideas which had found their place in a large number of poems, from "The ... Chiasson - 《University of Toronto Quarterly》...
The second collection, One Hundred Mood Studies, contains a set of short, stand-alone, rhymed sonnets, each expressing a modern-day emotional conflict. Exercises in the craft of formal writing, these poems provide an outlet for everyday shifts in emotions.Murray...
Although it is not in man’s nature to go to war, we still experience serious conflict and warfare even today. Take the current events in the Ukraine and Taiwan as an example; especially Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has left devastating effects on the country already. ...
s wanting shelter from all of the terrible things going on in the world. The song covers topics like war, murder, and fear, all of which lead to armed conflict. The lyrics warn the listener that any of these things could just be around the corner, and even in times of peace, to be...
Courageand of his first book of poems,The Black Riders,brought him international fame. Strikingly different in tone and technique fromMaggie, The Red Badge of Courageis a subtle impressionistic study of a young soldier trying to find reality amid the conflict of fierce warfare. The book’s ...
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...
These haunting verses witness the devastating impact of armed conflict on humanity. War poems capture the horrors of battle and loss of life.
Historically, poets were not soldiers. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Butler Yeats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling suffered losses, but never participated in armed conflict themselves. With very few exceptions, the most memorable war poems in the English...