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High Flight is a 1941 sonnet written by war poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. and inspired by his experiences as a fighter pilot of the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. Magee began writing the poem on 18 August, while stationed at No. 53 OTU outside London , and mailed a completed manuscript to his family on 3 September, three months ...
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 ...
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 .
"September 1, 1939" is a poem by W. H. Auden written shortly after the German invasion of Poland, which would mark the start of World War II. It was first published in The New Republic issue of 18 October 1939, and in book form in Auden's collection Another Time (1940).
The poem depicts hallucinations of typhoid-affected Yugoslav partisans marching through snow-covered wastelands during World War II. [1] It was first published in Kaštelan's 1950 book of poems The Cock on the Roof (Pijetao na krovu). [2] In 1963 the poem was adapted into a short animated film of the same title directed by Vatroslav Mimica. [3] [4]
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 ...
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The poem code is a simple and insecure, cryptographic method which was used during World War II by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) to communicate with their agents in Nazi-occupied Europe. The method works by having the sender and receiver pre-arranging a poem to use. The sender chooses a set number of words at random from the ...