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16 sie 2021 · Our screwed foreign policy’s nothing that’s new. And then wash their hands of the people who died. So, now that the Taliban’s back in their place. The Washington pols will all try to save face. Is rubbing the victim’s wounds raw with our salt. So, what have we learned from this tragic charade? We should have gone in, but we should not have stayed.
War poetry from the Afghanistan battlefront. The experience and thoughts of US and UK servicemen, plus the feelings of one lone partner of a soldier.
11 lip 2024 · This article undertakes a comprehensive war poetry analysis, examining its significance, the influential poets, and the thematic elements woven throughout. By exploring literary techniques and psychological perspectives, it reveals the enduring impact of war poetry on society and education.
24 cze 2014 · In I Am the Beggar of the World poet and journalist Eliza Griswold offers a rich and graceful collection of Pashto landays, short folk poems recited or sung by women native to the Pashtun areas of eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. The landay is a vibrant, clandestine, and ancient tradition.
20 paź 2024 · A twentieth-century depiction of the most famous Afghan war poet, Malalai, whose two-line tappa rallied her comrades to defeat the British at the Battle of Maiwand in 1880 during the second Anglo-Afghan War (unknown artist).
With the news filled with stories of conflict – for example, in Iraq and Afghanistan – the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, asked several poets to write on this theme. Weir was interested in the voice of women involved in conflict, which she believed were often silenced.
2 wrz 2021 · On 26 August 2021, ISIS-K attacked Kabul Airport, killing at least 182 people, including 13 US servicemen, the most US servicemen killed since 5 August 2011, during the Obama-Biden residency, when 38 died, in the worst single loss of the Afghan War (2001-2021).
