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The result is a poetry which, according to his detractors, can be cold, even callous, in the midst of war's atrocities. For others, Douglas's work is powerful and unsettling because its exact descriptions eschew egotism and shift the burden of emotion from the poet to the reader.
He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, [1] and then like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908–13). At Marlborough College Sorley's favourite pursuit was cross-country running in the rain, a theme evident in many of his pre-war poems, including Rain and The Song of the Ungirt Runners. In keeping with his strict ...
The War Within (Shadows Fall album), 2004; The War Within, a 1994 book by Tom Wells on America's internal battle over the war in Vietnam; The War Within (Woodward book), a book by Bob Woodward on the Bush Administration; The War Within (Matas book), a fictional book by Carol Matas regarding the issues of the America Civil War and slavery; The ...
Roger Rosenblatt calls it a "clever trick" of a poem, and emphasizes how the nomenclature of the rifle parts "mimics the flowering of spring". [2] Susan Manning considered it to be "a studied, ironic catalogue of some parts of experience silencing others" which "excludes more than it includes", noting the presence of "the beauty of nature and its utter irrelevance to the human struggle".
The Tears of War: The Love Story of a Young Poet and a War Hero, May Wedderburn Cannan; Publisher: Cavalier Books; 2000; ISBN 1-899470-18-2 First World War Poems by Andrew Motion, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Helen Mackay, Julian Grenfell, W.B. Yeats, May Wedderburn Cannan, Charles Hamilton Sorley, Edward Thomas; Publisher: Faber and Faber ...
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 Luddite protests of 1811–15 had been followed by the Spa Fields riots of 1816, the Blanketeers demonstration in March 1817 and soon afterwards the Pentridge or Pentrich rising, in June, and it was a time when many of Britain’s middle and upper classes saw a genuine risk of revolution.
Poetry is about the failure of classic poetic devices to capture the reality and brutality of prison life. The three poems mentioned above are included in the collection The Awakening by William Wantling (Rapp & Whiting, London, 1968) and the last two are included in San Quentin's Stranger by William Wantling (Caveman Press, Dunedin, 1973).