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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.
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]
Towards Love (1923) is a novel about the Great War, in which one of the protagonists is jailed as a conscientious objector. Some of her poems, such as "Lone Dog" from Songs to Save a Soul, have been adapted to song. [11]
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 ...
"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 ...
In 1972, Millay's poem "Conscientious Objector" was put to music by Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul and Mary) on her album Morning Glory. [ 76 ] In 1978, American composer Ivana Marburger Themmen used Millay's text for her composition Shelter This Candle from the Wind .
Gordon Hirabayashi's draft registration card. Written in the left-hand margin: "I am a conscientious objector." Although Hirabayashi had originally considered accepting internment, he ultimately became one of three to openly defy it. He joined the Quaker-run American Friends Service Committee.
[4]: 14–15 His older brother, Terence, was a conscientious objector like their father and was detained in military camps between 1941 and 1945 for his refusal to fight in World War II. [7] Between 1942 and 1946, Baxter drafted around 600 poems, saying later in life that his experiences as a teenager were painful but "created a gap in which ...