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"i sing of Olaf" (sometimes referred to as "i sing of Olaf glad and big") is a poem by E.E. Cummings.It first appeared in Cummings' 1931 collection ViVa.It depicts the life of Olaf, a conscientious objector and pacifist during the First World War who is tortured by the United States Army but nonetheless "will not kiss your fucking flag", and subsequently dies in prison.
Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon (12 September 1893 – 28 December 1959) was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist. A campaigning pacifist at the beginning of the 2nd World War, he had served in the 1st and termed himself a conscientious objector thereafter.
She maintained that "absolutists" like Stephen should either receive a King's Pardon or be released into civilian life. Margaret produced a pamphlet, I Appeal unto Caesar: the case of the conscientious objectors, with an introduction by the classicist and public figure Gilbert Murray, publicising
"A Hidden Life," about an Austrian man who refuses to fight for Nazi Germany, is a contender for the top Palme D'Or award, which Malick already won with "The Tree of Life" in 2011. Set against a ...
Despite his late start, he was a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies and eventually published fifty-seven volumes of poetry. James Dickey called Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." [8] He kept a daily journal for 50 years, and composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were ...
He later wrote In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter, about the Austrian farmer and conscientious objector who refused to swear an oath to Hitler and to fight in his army. [2] [3] Zahn first heard of Jägerstätter in 1956, while doing research for German Catholics and Hitler's Wars. [4]
[6] Thomas Hardy said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. [58] The poet Richard Wilbur asserted that Millay "wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." [59] [60] Nancy Milford published a biography of the poet in 2001, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay.
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. [1]