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  2. Boots (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1] "Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War. It has been suggested for the first four words of each line to be read ...

  3. Category:World War II poems - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "World War II poems" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.

  4. Wait for Me (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, much of the appeal of Wait for Me was the intimate and tender feelings expressed by the soldier narrator who wants to survive the war as he only wishes to return to the woman he loves once the war is over. [2] At a time when bombastic war poems were common, Wait For Me stood out in the sense though the soldier narrator embraces his ...

  5. Prussian Nights - Wikipedia

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    Prussian Nights (Russian: Прусские ночи) is a long poem by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who served as a captain in the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Prussian Nights describes the Red Army's march across East Prussia, and focuses on the traumatic acts of rape and murder that Solzhenitsyn witnessed as a participant in that ...

  6. Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City - Wikipedia

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    Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City (German: Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt ) is a 2005 poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein . It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden , lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment .

  7. AD (poem) - Wikipedia

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    AD is a poem by the American poet Kenneth Fearing, written in 1938 and published in 1956 in New and Collected Poems by the Indiana University Press. [1] [2] It is written in the form of a job advertisement. In it, Fearing satirizes the autonomy of killing in the European theatre of World War II.

  8. The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb - Wikipedia

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    A sailor wandering in London during a World War II air-raid finds a newborn baby in the debris. He takes refuge with the child in an empty church, where it amazes him by levitating and speaking. A dialogue follows between the child, fresh from eternity, and the man mired in the temporal world. At dawn a flying bomb falls on the church, killing ...

  9. Category:World War II poets - Wikipedia

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