This is a post-war poem written by a German pastor, Martin Niemoller, following the Nazis’ rise to power and subsequent purging of their chosen targets: ...

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?

Yuliya Musakovska, a poet based in Lviv, Ukraine, said that after Russia’s full-scale invasion of her country, her poetic style changed. For example, she said, she uses a metaphor of stones and ...

Poems with a darker outlook in the third edition reflected Whitman's uneasiness regarding the future of the United States itself in the years leading to the Civil War. Whitman rearranged the poems ...

In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book ...

Perhaps he has a point - in the decades after the war, poems were anthologized, a process that disconnected the work from the events that inspired it. Depictions of specific attacks became generic ...

World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?