War Poetry
It's difficult to lump all war poetry together, as it ranges from the blind patriotism of such poems as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" to the realism of war shown in "Dulce et Decorum Est". Although I am fascinated by war poetry in general, it is that of the First World War that I love best, and that will be shown here.
Ewart Alan Mackintosh (1893-1917)
In Memoriam
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
The Chances
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
Break of Day in the Trenches
Dead Man's Dump
God
Disabled
And, because I couldn't resist, I decided to include some Blake and a marvellous poem from the Second World War!
William Blake (1757-1827)
Prologue, Intended for a Dramatic Piece of King Edward the Fourth
Henry Reed (1914 - 1986)
Naming of Parts (Lessons of War I)
Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895 - 1915)
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Soldier Poets
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Repression of War Experience
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
To His Love
Richard Aldington (1892-1962)
Soliloquy 2
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