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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 ...
There were five main arenas where Australian Great War Poetry was written in the period of 1914 to 1939: the Home Front, Gallipoli, The Middle East, The Western Front and England. These arenas were to form important segregations of poetic attitude and interest specific to the war mood at the time.
The poem and poppy are prominent Remembrance Day symbols throughout the Commonwealth of Nations, particularly in Canada, where "In Flanders Fields" is one of the nation's best-known literary works. The poem is also widely known in the United States, where it is associated with Veterans Day and Memorial Day.
"On Anzac eve we dug in among friends. At last I felt like an Anzac, and I imagine there were 600 others like me, " — Captain Reg Saunders , said following the withdrawal during the Battle of Kapyong
Hogue sent articles under the pen-name "Trooper Bluegum" to the Sydney Morning Herald, which he later compiled and had published as Love Letters of an Anzac (London, 1916) and Trooper Bluegum at the Dardanelles (London, 1916). The single work of "Trooper Bluegum" that remains popular today is his (1919) poem, "The Horses Stay Behind".
Cover from The Muse in Arms. The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I.It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches Thursday to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day. New Zealand Prime Minister ...
The mention of the word "silent" in the title published in Wharton's collection, appears contrary to the construction of poetry or the poetic voice. [6] In the poem "Politics", Yeats begins the poem where "On being asked for a War Poem" finishes with the opening lines: How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian