wolfsbane Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 Hi All Wondering if anyone else has any favourite war poets/poetry? I remember studying these quite a bit at GCSE, and my grandfather, an RAF veteran, was also really fond of these... Wilfred Owen - Anthem for doomed youth Dulce et decorum est Disabled Yeats - An Irishman forsees his death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 There Will Come Soft Rains - Sara Teasdale Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon Mental Cases - Wilfred Owen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Look up everything you can by Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. It's well worth delving right into their stories and styles, they are two of the best and my two favourites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 In Flander's Field by John McCrae and I love this one NAMING OF PARTS by Henry Reed To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday, We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning, We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day, To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens, And to-day we have naming of parts. This is the lower sling swivel. And this Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see, When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel, Which in your case you have not got. The branches Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures, Which in our case we have not got. This is the safety-catch, which is always released With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see Any of them using their finger. And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring. They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt, And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance, Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards, For to-day we have naming of parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 I recall that one too Poppy, it's a really good one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirinrob Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 This is one of my favourite poems - thanks for posting:mrgreen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawr Posted December 27, 2009 Share Posted December 27, 2009 I thought i would post one of my favourites, which i mentioned above. It is about the whole nature vs mankind concept, which i love. There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metasearcher Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 There is interesting website about war poetry: http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/ I found there some good poems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelie Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 (edited) Wilfred Owen's poems are very good, I've always liked them. I also like this one, from Frederic Manning: Grotesque These are the damned circles Dante trod, Terrible in hopelessness, But even skulls have their humour, An eyeless and sardonic mockery: And we, Sitting with streaming eyes in the acrid smoke, That murks our foul, damp billet, Chant bitterly, with raucous voices As a choir of frogs In hideous irony, our patriotic songs. Edited November 12, 2012 by Amelie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumberbabe Posted March 5, 2013 Share Posted March 5, 2013 I'm doing the Great War Poets as part of my dissertation I, personally, love everything written by Owen after his meeting with Sassoon. Exposure made me cry when I first read it. I love mental cases, strange meeting, apologia pro poemate meo, and the last laugh. Sassoon never really felt like a poet to me, he was a soldier and a great mind, but he never achieved what Owen did in his poetry. Saying that, counter attack is pretty decent. I'm not very well versed in the other war poets, but I'd like to be. The world wars are a period in history that really fascinates me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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