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The poem is referenced in Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott (1880) as mother and children discuss the gallant fall of the soldiers rather than disobeying orders. [ 10 ] The poem is referenced in Eugene V. Debs 's Canton Speech (1918) protesting against World War I. [ 11 ]
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 ...
Winterlude: Poems (Robson Books, 1982) Funeral Games and Other Poems (Robson Books, 1987) Sporting Literature (Oxford, 1987), editor, anthology; The Clever Potato – A Feast of Poetry for Children (Red Fox, 1988) Soldiering On. Poems of Military Life (Robson Books, 1989) Love Shouts and Whispers (Red Fox, 1990) A Time for Fires (Robson Books ...
Illustration from The Children's Encyclopædia "After Blenheim" is an anti-war poem written by English Romantic poet laureate Robert Southey in 1796. The poem is set at the site of the Battle of Blenheim (1704), with the questions of two small children about a skull one of them has found. Their grandfather, an old man, tells them of burned ...
"The Little Smuggler" (Polish: Mały szmugler) is a famous poem by the Polish poet Henryka Łazowertówna (1909–1942). Written in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust, it tells the story of a small child who supports his starving family by — illegally, under Nazi dispensation — bringing over food supplies from the "Aryan side", thereby allowing for his family's survival while at the ...
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer , who died in the Second Battle of Ypres .
Napalm Sticks to Kids" is a protest song that has seen life as both a published track and an informal military cadence. It originates from the Vietnam War , during which napalm —an incendiary gel —saw extensive use.
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 ...