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"Ode to Liberty" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin publicly recited the poem, one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander the First . Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after the poem was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825).
[4]: xxii, 156–158 The poem is a conversation over alcohol and cigarettes between an Israeli soldier and the speaker, whose name is Mahmoud, retold in first-person through quotations and reported speech. About half of the poem is the soldier's speech—59 out of 118 lines. [5]: 55–61
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. " The Soldier " is a poem written by Rupert Brooke . It is the fifth and final sonnet in the sequence 1914 , published posthumously in 1915 in the collection 1914 and Other Poems .
Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts "First they came ..." (German: Zuerst kamen sie ...) is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
In 1919, Éluard wrote to Gala: "War is coming to an end. We will now fight for happiness after having fought for Life". Waiting to be sent home, he published "Duty and Anxiety" and "Little Poems for Peace". Following the advice of his publisher, he sent the poems to various personalities of the literary world who took a stand against the war.
“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” — Robert Heinlein “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like ...
1832 first edition, printed by Bradbury and Evans, Edward Moxon, London. 1842 title page, with added poems "Queen Liberty" and "Song-To the Men of England", J. Watson, London. The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy ) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry ) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the Peterloo Massacre ...
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.