It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...
World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?
of Black soldiers fighting in World War II. In their blend of bravado and vulnerability, these poems capture the anxieties and aspirations of men facing a double battle: against fascism overseas ...
More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...
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How Ukrainian writers are processing war through poetryYuliya Musakovska, a poet based in Lviv, Ukraine, said that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of her country, her poetic style changed. For example, she said, she uses a metaphor of stones and ...
no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine. People attend the "emergency protest" organized by an anti-war and ...
John McCrae, a surgeon in the Canadian Army, wrote possibly one of the most famous pieces of war poetry, In Flanders Fields, while observing the scenes outside a dressing station near Ypres in 1915.
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Opinion: How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? Reading each other's poetry is a good startWorld War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?
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