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War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
The poem has been translated into English by David Hawkes as "Hymn to the Fallen". "Guo shang" is a hymn to soldiers killed in war. Guó (國) means the "state", "kingdom", or "nation". Shāng (殤) means to "die young". Put together, the title refers to those who meet death in the course of fighting for their country.
David Hawkes describes it as "surely one of the most beautiful laments for fallen soldiers in any language". [24] The meter is a regular seven-character verse, with three characters separated by the exclamatory particle "兮" followed by three more characters, each composing a half line, for a total of nine lines of 126 characters.
The poem quoted at Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. The first monument to the fallen Confederate States of America in Kentucky, the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, used a verse from "Bivouac of the Dead". Six other monuments in Kentucky also used parts of the poem on memorials to fallen Confederates. [6]
At least 55 composers in the United States set the poem "In Flanders Fields" to music by 1920, including Charles Ives, Arthur Foote, and John Philip Sousa. [31] The setting by Ives, which premiered in early 1917, is perhaps the earliest American setting. [32] Fussell criticized the poem in his work The Great War and Modern Memory (1975). [25]
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Remembrance Day: Artist’s used tea bag paintings pay tribute to fallen soldiers. Danielle Desouza, PA. ... Mr Jackman, who died in July 1978 aged 65 following a short illness, was a prisoner of ...
Cover from The Muse in Arms. The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I.It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.