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Relief at the entrance of the Cultural Center of the Armies in Madrid, showing the Latin phrase "Si vis pacem, para bellum.". Si vis pacem, para bellum (Classical Latin: [siː wiːs ˈpaːkɛ̃ ˈparaː ˈbɛllʊ̃]) is a Latin adage translated as "If you want peace, prepare for war."
The poem influenced literary works such as The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (1940), The Opposing Shore (1951) by Julien Gracq, and Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by J. M. Coetzee. [ 2 ] The questions stated in the poem are all in fifteen-syllable lines, whilst the answers mostly occur in twelve-syllable - sometimes thirteen-syllable - lines.
The last line of the prepared address echoes the second and third lines of the poem. [2] [3] The same lines were also used in the lyrics of Pink Floyd's "The Gunner's Dream" (1983, on The Final Cut) [4] and Al Stewart's "Somewhere in England 1915" (2005, on A Beach Full of Shells). The poem is read in its entirety in films Oh!
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 ...
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses Michael Robartes and the Dancer. [1] The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to describe allegorically the atmosphere of post-war Europe ...
The love notes also appear to show that Bradley was in love with Gordon Bowsher before being drafted. The two met in 1938 at party when Bowsher was actually dating Bradley's nephew.
On Oct. 3, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted out a poll to his 119 million followers to vote on his idea for a peace plan, which included four parts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
The title poem has been cited by cultural and political figures in the years since its publication. The reasons for the work being cited vary. From the poem being critically and universally praised, [23] [21] to it becoming one of the most famous poems to be written about Kashmir, it was a poem that connected to the land and the people of the ...