Tag Archives: "Strange Meeting"

Wanted: Teachers, Not Martyrs

By Robin Bates | Published: August 8, 2020

Some say teachers should, like soldiers, should put their lives on the line. This A.E. Housman poem brings up the question of whether even soldiers should do so when there sacrifice will be meaningless.

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Soldier, Rest, Thy Warfare O’er

By Robin Bates | Published: May 25, 2015

In “Soldier Rest,” Sir Walter Scott captures how inviting death can look to those caught up in battle’s throes.

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Poetry Changed during World War I

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2014

The horrors of World War I created some great poetry. But not in its early days.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Futility", "Happy Is England Now", "I Have a Rendezvous with Death", "Soldier", "Strange Meeting", Soldiers, war, Wilfred Owen, World War I | Comments closed

Memorializing Our Lost Innocence

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2012

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.

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