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Drum-Taps is a collection of poetry composed by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. The collection was published in May 1865. [1] The first 500 copies of the collection were printed in April 1865, [2] the same month President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War.. War poetry is poetry on the topic of war. While the term is applied especially to works of the First World War, [1] the term can be applied to poetry about any war, including Homer's Iliad, from around the 8th century BC as well as poetry of the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the ...
Drum-Taps) ; The Patriotic Poems II (Poems of After-War) Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day [May 4, 1865] " Hush’d be the camps to-day," Leaves of Grass (Book XXII. Memories of President Lincoln) ; The Patriotic Poems II (Poems of After-War) I Am He That Aches with Love " I am he that aches with amorous love;" Leaves of Grass (Book IV. Children of Adam.)
Weapons Training" is a piece of war poetry written by Bruce Dawe in 1970. A dramatic monologue spoken by a battle-hardened drill sergeant training recruits about to be sent off to the Vietnam War , its anti-war sentiment is evident but more oblique than in Dawe's other well-known war poem, "Homecoming" , written two years earlier.
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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.
The poem tells the story of a family living in rural Ohio during the American Civil War. A mother and father have four children; their eldest, a son named Pete, has been sent to fight in the war, and their three daughters are still living with them. In the poem, the family gets a letter from Pete.