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War memorial in ChristChurch Cathedral, Christchurch, New Zealand CWGC headstone with excerpt from "For The Fallen". Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943), [3] a British poet, was described as having a "sober" response to the outbreak of World War I, in contrast to the euphoria many others felt (although he signed the "Author's Declaration" that defended British involvement in the ...
Many of these men found her work distasteful, Owen in particular. His poem Dulce et Decorum Est was a direct response to her writing, originally dedicated "To Jessie Pope etc.". A later draft amended this as "To a certain Poetess", later being removed completely to turn the poem into a general reproach on anyone sympathetic to the war. [13]
poem XLVI: 'The Death of the Zeppelin' by O. – refers to the defence mounted against the Zeppelins; poem XLVII: 'The Last Salute' by Robert Nichols – refers to the death of the Grenfell brothers; poem XLIX: 'R. B.' by Aubrey Herbert – a tribute to Rupert Brooke; poem LII: 'Goliath and David' by Robert Graves – a tribute to David Thomas [51]
These loss of mother quotes help honor the beautiful connections mothers make with their children. Jimmy Fallon's mom, Gloria, passed away in 2017 at age 68. ...
"The Aboriginal Mother" is a poem written by Eliza Hamilton Dunlop, which expresses her lament over the Myall Creek massacre, a mass murder of at least twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians. [1] It was published initially in The Australian on 13 December 1838, several days after seven men were found guilty of the incident but a few days before ...
Mary Borden, Poems of Love and War, edited by Paul O'Prey, was published in London by Dare-Gale Press, [11] distributed by the University of Chicago Press [12] in the US. Her war poems were slowly recognized but now feature in several modern First World War poetry anthologies. [13] Her 1937 novel Action for Slander was adapted into a film the ...
'You left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide.'
[citation needed] A bronze statue Mother and Children (1962) by Lyndon Smith is the focal point in the Sanctuary. The statue represents the families left behind and those who suffered the loss of those who died in conflicts. It is a rare example of the depiction of women's experiences in a war memorial. [31]