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Harrison’s ‘The Bright Lights of Sarajevo’ illuminates love and life amidst war’s darkness, showcasing human resilience.
These haunting verses witness the devastating impact of armed conflict on humanity. War poems capture the horrors of battle, the loss of lives, and the emotional toll on soldiers and civilians alike. They may reflect on the complexities of war, questioning its necessity and highlighting its lasting scars on societies and individuals.
2 lis 2015 · To make it easier to select just ten great war poems, we’ve limited ourselves to the First World War (though several were written many decades later), but this is not to deny that there have been many stirring and successful poems written about other conflicts.
25 maj 2019 · Poets have explored many meanings of peace, describing inner calm, making peace with death, peace between nations and among friends.
15 wrz 2010 · Wisława Szymborska, “ The End and the Beginning ”. The great anti-war poems written by soldiers (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Randall Jarrell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Brian Turner, etc.) have often confronted war with frank honesty, bitter anger, and great compassion for war’s victims.
Poems and prose about conflict, armed conflict, and poetry's role in shaping perceptions and outcomes of war.
1914 Wilfred Owen. War broke: and now the Winter of the world With perishing great darkness closes in. The foul tornado, centred at Berlin, Is over all the width of Europe whirled, Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled Are all Art's ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin Famines of thought and feeling. Love's wine's thin.
