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Soldier's Dream is a poem written by English war poet Wilfred Owen. It was written in October 1917 in Craiglockhart , a suburb in the south-west of Edinburgh (Scotland), while the author was recovering from shell shock in the trenches, inflicted during World War I .
William Scott (April 6, 1839 – April 17, 1862) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He was the "Sleeping Sentinel" who was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln and memorialized by a poem and then a 1914 silent film .
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
Sassoon's account of his experiences in the trenches during World War I, between the spring of 1916 and the summer of 1917, creates a picture of a physically brave but self-effacing and highly insecure individual. The narrative moves from the trenches to the Fourth Army School, to Morlancourt and a raid, then to and through the Somme.
The collection was published at the point in the war where there was a shift from "patriotism and romanticism" to a more realistic verse that reflected the "brutal reality" of trench warfare, [61] answering "to a public demand, particularly strong during the period of the great battles of 1915–17, for poetry from the trenches". [62]
— Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, Afro-Cuban poet and independence activist (28 June 1844), during execution by firing squad for conspiracy [note 51] "Examine it for yourself." [7]: 178 — Thomas Webster, Scottish geologist (26 December 1844) "Dying, Dying." [7]: 81 — Thomas Hood, English poet, author and humorist (3 May 1845)
"Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts for Soldiers" is a World War I-era song that tells about a young girl sewing shirts for soldiers fighting abroad. Her efforts are in vain however, as "Some soldiers send epistles, say they'd sooner sleep in thistles, than the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews."
"Michael" is a pastoral poem, written by William Wordsworth and first published in the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads, a series of poems that were said to have begun the English Romantic movement in literature. [1] The poem is one of Wordsworth's best-known poems and the subject of much critical literature. [1]