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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 ...
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]
Auden in 1939. German dictator Adolf Hitler observes German soldiers marching into Poland, September 1939 "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.
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 .
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 ...
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 ...
"Prayer Before Birth" is a poem written by the Irish poet Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) at the height of the Second World War. Written from the perspective of an unborn child, the poem expresses the author's fear at what the world's tyranny can do to the innocence of a child and blames the human race for the destruction that was gripping the world at the time.