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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).
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.
This chapter examines the poetry written in English by Afghan women poets from locations in the West, mostly in the United States of America and Australia, as sites of protest. Afghan women’s poetry deals predominantly with issues of loss of home, trauma and hope.
10 wrz 2007 · After serving tours of duty in both Afghanistan and Iraq, Nathaniel Fick thought it was time to go back. On his way to teach troops in Afghanistan, he looks at recent war-themed collections of poetry and sees how they stack up.
Written in response to the poet Carol Ann Duffy’s call for more war poems about the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, Weir’s poem imagines the trials and difficulties of war from the perspective of a mother who sends her child off to fight.
Poetry — especially love poetry — is forbidden to many of Afghanistan’s women: it implies dishonor and free will. Both are unsavory for women in traditional Afghan culture. Soon after, Muska died.
The Landay (Pashto: لنډۍ) is a traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet. There are nine syllables in the first line, and thirteen syllables in the second. These short poems typically address themes of love, grief, homeland, war, and separation. [1]
