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4 days ago · I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled. Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress, None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
3 days ago · Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen is today remembered as the poetic personification of World War I trench warfare as bloody futility. However, when war broke out in August 1914, many poets wrote in praise of patriotism and the glory of war, the noble duty of Youth to die in battle.
2 days ago · In England, “Byromania” returned, with mourners from all walks of life mobbing the funeral procession in London and flocking to see the body at a mansion rented for the purpose; while Byron’s scandalous past still denied him a place in the Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey, the newspapers declared that his death should shift the focus ...
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12 hours ago · In his poem “Little Gidding,” written during World War II, T. S. Eliot wrote that the Cavaliers and Puritans who fought in England’s Civil War, in the 17th century, now “are folded in a ...
6 days ago · Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had a following in the literary community. In the ensuing years her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers, who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair, violent emotion ...
- Carolyn Zygmont
- 2020
4 days ago · These are true statements. They are indisputable, but they hardly contribute to an understanding of historical process and historical change. The difficulty of this kind of reasoning appears in other parts of the book. Ferguson argues that in the war crisis of 1914, the Liberal cabinet was split. So far, so good.
3 days ago · Throughout history, art has left an indelible cultural impact on humanity’s collective understanding of war. Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ is perhaps the most famous manifestation of this; but the richer historical tradition is certainly written, with a heritage as far back as Homer’s Iliad and its depiction of the Trojan War. As the outbreak of conflicts in […]
