The article discusses the lack of contributions to war effort by poets with poems rarely remembered when the war was over. It points out that there was no single decent poem that emerged from the Great War although in Great Britain, poetry was central to the Great War and poems of soldiers...
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Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World WarBrian Kennedy
During the First World War Sinclair served with the Red Cross in the Field Ambulance Corps, one of the first women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914, although she was soon sent back home. Her notable war poetry includes Field Ambulance in Retreat....
Korean War McCarthyism Truman survived an assassination attempt on November 1, 1950. The first family was staying in Blair House — the White House was undergoing major renovations — when two Puerto Rican nationals attempted to enter the house and shoot him. There was gun battle outside Blair...
The Inspired Word is about poetry. The First World War caused suffering to countless millions. The weariness, discomfort and fear of those in the trenches, the agonies of the wounded and the grief of those bereft of their loved ones. But, as is often the case, from the darkest of ...
Prose & Poetry - A Farewell to Arms(1929), Hemingway's great novel set against the background of the war in Italy, eclipses the poetry dealing with his war-time experiences. Sponsored Links Before America entered the war Hemingway (1899-1961) volunteered and served in the ambulance corps ...
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Dan Gerber WHAT I REMEMBER OF WORLD WAR II I was born the day before the first air raid on Briton and, of course, remember nothing of that. But I remember everything that was spoken about the war and the way people looked when they spoke about it. I reme