Politics and war have inspired writers, poets, and playwrights since humankind began telling stories. Whether to honor those who have died in battle or to mourn the senseless destruction such conflict causes, these 10 poems about war and remembrance are classics. Learn about the poets who wrote ...
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 language were composed by classically-trained writers who observed war from a positi...
In the domain of culture, just as much as in the sciences as in the arts and letters, the shortcomings and advantages on both sides are complementary to such a degree that there can only be advantage in an understanding, and prejudice in a conflict. Share this: Reddit Facebook Tumblr ...
With the number of cast and crew reaching an unprecedented scale of more than 12,000, the movie re-creates the serious conflict on the Korean Peninsula amid the extremely cold winter of 1950, when temperatures decreased to the lowest level in 50 years. The movie’s production involved more ...
This would start to change during the War of 1812. Often referred to as the “Second War of Independence,” the conflict inspired a fresh wave of patriotism in a generation too young to remember the Revolution. When Key declared that “our flag was still there,” he fused the physical sym...
During the conflict, the plethora of poetry about the war by poets and those urged into poetry who had not written verse before means that I can show but a few strands of this poetic response, and I will do so mainly with those who devoted themselves to poetry.1 The poems discussed ...
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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