![]() “ from Epitaphs of the War, 1914-18” by Rudyard Kipling (1919) “ Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon (1919) “ January 1919” by Christopher Middleton (1919) Treaty of Sevres in 1920 ends war on Eastern Front. Proposal and constitution for League of Nations. Senate votes to reject treaty and refuses to join League of Nations. Peace Treaty of Versailles ratified by Germany U.S. “ And There Was a Great Calm” by Thomas HardyĪrmies demobilize, return home. “ Epitaph On My Days in Hospital” by Vera Mary Brittain “ Lettres d'un Soldat” by Wallace Stevens (published in Poetry) “ God! How I hate you, you young cheerful men” by Arthur Graeme West “ Repression of War Experience” by Siegfried Sassoon “ The Veteran” by Margaret Postgate Cole (published in Poetry) Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates, Germany signs armistice on November 11. Bolsheviks murder Tsar Nicholas II and Romanov family. United States launches attacks at Belleau Wood and Argonne Forest. Germany launches Spring Offensive, bombs Paris. President Wilson issues Fourteen Points to peace. “ To Any Dead Officer” by Siegfried Sassoon “ After the War” by Mary Wedderburn Cannan “ from Battle of the Somme: The Song of the Mud” by Mary Borden “ Returning, We Hear the Larks” by Isaac Rosenberg “ Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen “ I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger Bolshevik uprising in Russia, led by Lenin, headed by Trotsky. Germans issue Zimmerman Telegram to Mexico, United States declares war on Germany, draft begins. “ At the Movies” by Florence Ripley Mastin “ Ode in Memory of the American Volunteers Fallen for France” by Alan Seeger “ The Night Patrol” by Arthur Graeme West “ In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’” by Thomas Hardy “ Sonnet 9: On Returning to the Front after Leave” by Alan Seeger “ As the Team’s Head Brass” by Edward Thomas “ Break of Day in the Trenches” by Isaac Rosenberg (published in Poetry) President Wilson re-elected with campaign slogan, “He kept us out of the war.” Rasputin is murdered. “ This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong” by Edward Thomasīattle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme. “ When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead” by Charles Sorley ![]() “ The Falling Leaves” by Margaret Postgate Cole ![]() “ Marching” by Isaac Rosenberg (published in Poetry) “ On Being Asked for a War Poem” by William Butler Yeats “ The Spring in War-Time” by Sara Teasdale “ In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)” by Edward Thomas “ Before Marching and After” by Thomas Hardy “ Fallen” by Alice Corbin Henderson (published in Poetry) “ War Yawp” by Richard Aldington (published in Poetry) “ The Bombardment” by Amy Lowell (published in Poetry) “ Iron” by Carl Sandburg (published in Poetry) “ Phases” by Wallace Stevens (published in Poetry) “ On Heaven” by Ford Madox Ford (published in Poetry) “ Joining the Colours” by Katherine Tynan “ The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke (published in Poetry) ![]() “ Peace” by Rupert Brooke (published in Poetry) “ On Receiving News of the War” by Isaac Rosenberg First Battle of the Marne, First Battle of Ypres. Though horrific depictions of battle in poetry date back to Homer’s Iliad, the later poems of WWI mark a substantial shift in how we view war and sacrifice.Īrchduke Ferdinand assassinated. You may notice that more poems in 19 extoll the old virtues of honor, duty, heroism, and glory, while many later poems after 1915 approach these lofty abstractions with far greater skepticism and moral subtlety through realism and bitter irony. While many of these poems do not address a particular war event, we’ve listed them by year, along with a selection of historical markers, to contextualize the poems historically. We’ve also compiled a collection showcasing the poets who served and volunteered in World War I. To mark the WWI centenary, we’ve put together a sampling of poems written in English by both soldiers and civilians, chosen from our archive of over 250 poems from WWI. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Just months before his death in 1918, English poet Wilfred Owen famously wrote: The horror of the war and its aftermath altered the world for decades, and poets responded to the brutalities and losses in new ways. Roughly 10 million soldiers lost their lives in World War I, along with seven million civilians.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |