Tag Archives: Armistice Day

When Will We Ever Learn?

Alfred Noyes’s “On the Western Front” challenges us to learn from our wars.

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The Fellowship of Soldiers

In a poem for Veterans Day, Wilfred Owen captures the heartfelt emotions and the bonding that soldiers experience. Some of these emotions are genuinely moving, others are disturbing.

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A Reminder Not to Forget War’s Ravages

Kipling’s “Recessional” curiously isn’t the imperialistic war poem that would have expected at Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee.

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