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In Flanders Fields. " 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.
The poem was also set to music by Kurt Weill as one of his "Four Walt Whitman Songs". [84] The poem appears in the 1989 American film Dead Poets Society. [85] John Keating (played by Robin Williams), an English teacher at the Welton Academy boarding school, [86] introduces his students to the poem in their first class.
Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Died. 18 March 1958. (1958-03-18) (aged 83) Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Occupation. Classical scholar. John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) alludes to the poem in initially describing the main character's home. [32] Farley Mowat's 1980 memoir of his experiences in World War II is entitled And No Birds Sang. [33] Pale Kings and Princes, a 1987 Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, takes its title from the poem.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. " A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning " is a metaphysical poem by John Donne. Written in 1611 or 1612 for his wife Anne before he left on a trip to Continental Europe, "A Valediction" is a 36-line love poem that was first published in the 1633 collection Songs and Sonnets, two years after Donne's death.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun. Stand still, yet we will make him run. [ 1] " To His Coy Mistress " is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. [ 2]
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Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.