Fifteen of the most moving First World War poems

In the introduction to the poems of the Oxford War, Jon Stallworthy emphasized the emotional power of poetry about war: "poetry", Wordsworth is "spontaneous overflow of strong emotion", the field of human experience Powerful emotions than war that does not produce war: hope and fear, excitement and humiliation, hatred - war for enemies, GM, politicians and profits, as well as fellow soldier love, women and children, and Often for the country) and its reason (sometimes). "

British lecturer at Oxford University, Dr. Stuart Lee, "The First World War" is one of the pioneering moments of the 20th century, among which the cultural soldiers fall into an inhumane situation and around the poetry We responded. "

The BBC said, "One quarter of the poems released during World War I was shot by women, but soldiers were one fifth."

Their poem adds, "It is clarifying how women participate in war - work and debate, pain and sacrifice," the broadcasting station added.

As Evelyn Underhill wrote as "non-combatant" in her poem, "We have never said / there is no war to pay"

In the past 100 years, many poems from World War I have been compiled. Here are some of the best ones

But here, the observer from the lonely stove of the inward sword bleeds more slowly,

(Her fiancée Roland Aubrey Leighton was devoted to a killer by a sniper in 1915, four months after she accepted his suggestion).

WB Yeats' first battle song was "provided to provide war poetry" written on February 6, 1915. In response to Henry James' request, Yeats wrote a political poem about World War I. On 20 August 1915, Yeat wrote a letter to Curry of Coul Park and asked me to sign a declaration for neutral state. Reason for silence "When it was reprinted at a later time, the title was changed to" needed to get war poetry ". Yeats's most famous war poetry is "Pilots in Ireland predict his death". This poem is a monologue given by the pilot in the First World War, and the talker describes his impending death. This poem explores the role of Irish soldiers in the fight against England while Ireland is trying to establish Ireland independence.

Many of the most moving and memorable poems that appeared during the Second World War were written by Americans. Jarrell, who was working at the US Army Air Corps, is concerned about the victims. The most famous is the theme of the poem. In order to draw out all its power, it is necessary to know that the turret is a plexiglass sphere placed on the bomb's belly and that there are two machine guns and one bad guy - he must be small. When the gunner tracked the fighter plane attacking his bombers from under using his machine gun he turned with the turret. Falling into his small ball, he looks like a fetus in the womb. Jarrell 's gunners awoke from the dream of life to the reality of death. "When I died they used a hose to wash me from the turret" only the last sentence - the power of the metaphor attacked us