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The Poetry of World War I by The Editors Poetry Foundation From poems written in the trenches to elegies for the dead, these poems commemorate the Great War By The Editors Roughly million soldiers lost their lives in World War I, along with seven million civilians The horror of the war and its aftermath altered the world for decades, and poets responded to the brutalities and losses in new ways. Poems written during World War One Assignment Example I have chosen four poems on the subject of World War One Each of my chosen poems is from the individual point of view The poem written during the middle of the war is in complete contrast to the post war and pre war poems. The Poetry of World War II by The Editors Poetry Foundation Many of these poems first appeared in the pages of Poetry magazine and were written by former soldiers such as Randall Jarrell, as well as conscientious objectors such as Stanley Kunitz and Robert Lowell Still others were written by civilians, editors, and journalists working at home. Civil War Poetry Library of Congress Poetry Resources Library of Congress Poetry Resources Many types of poetry were written during the Civil War era This section highlights several of these types, and provides access to representative examples of each in the Library of Congress s American Memory collections Type One Early Poems Of WW Poems Great War An illustrated collection of poetry from the First World War, which includes biographical details of the poets in addition to examples of their work The poets featured include John William Streets, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas and Robert Graves. Famous Holocaust Poems The HyperTexts The most famous Holocaust poem, First They Came for the Jews, was written by Martin Niemller, a Lutheran pastor who was born in Germany in At one time a supporter of Hitler s policies, he eventually came to oppose the Nazis and as a result was arrested and confined to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps from to . Poetry and Music of the War Between the States look to the poems and songs written during and after the War Images from the Library of Congress s Selected Civil War Photographs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Index of Titles to Keith Laurent for arranging and playing Ashokan Farewell and to Kevin Laurent for making the MIDI file by Poetry and Music of the War Between the States What are some poems written by children during the Apr , Ring Around the Rosie actually was a children s nursery rhyme WAY before the Holocaust around the s As for children s poetry during the Holocaust, look at the book I Never Say Another Butterfly it is a collection of poems, stories, and art by children in the Terizin ghetto. Poetry from and about the Civil Rights Movement Poems of the Freedom Movement Please email your Movement related poems, or suggestions, to webspinner crmvet see Submissions Policy The Forerunners Freedom School Poems Poems written by Freedom School students, Mississippi, I am Mississippi Fed, Ida Ruth Griffin The House of Liberty, Joyce Brown War poet American Civil War As the American Civil War was beginning, American poet Walt Whitman published his poem Beat Beat Drums as a patriotic rally call for the North Whitman volunteered for a time as a nurse in the army hospitals, and his collection Drum Taps deals with