Saturday, November 24, 2007

War poetry

Crumbs. I apparently didn't copy the Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope poems I wanted. Here is the Wilfred Owen one. Some of you may have seen it before.

Here is "The Call," Jessie Pope's best known poem, which you should also read. As this site tells you, Owen wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" in direct response to Pope. In fairness to Pope, as the war dragged on she got much less gung-ho than she is here and in this similar poem, "Who's for the Game"?

You may want to print these out so you can refer to them easily in our on-line discussion on Tuesday.

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