Sentences with phrase «world war poetry»

school campaign, Access Hollywood correspondent and former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent introduced a series of moving and thought - provoking pieces that included students reading First World War poetry, a school choir, a live link - up to a Canadian school and an interview with Invictus Games gold medal winner and veteran Mickaela Richards.

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Consider his apologia for the poetry he was writing during and after World War II, when the world was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human hisWorld War II, when the world was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human hisworld was undergoing a shock and disillusionment perhaps unparalleled in human history.

For Milosz this was not an insight arrived at late in life; the Treatise presents us with the mature version of what we already saw in the poetry he was writing during the darkest period of the Second World War: «Gentle verses written in the midst of horror declare themselves for life.»

He wrote more than twenty books of poetry, most notably Omeros (1990), which transplants the Trojan War to the Caribbean fishing world....

The way I personally was treated by the leftist poetry world in the run - up to the invasion of Iraq is one of the things that helped convince me to support the war: If their objections to the invasion were all culture - war retreads ¯ the open expression of anti-Semitism and hatred of Christianity were particularly appalling ¯ then I figured I should be for the invasion.

In volume and in literary quality, the Old Testament is one of the world's great collections of the poetry of war.

An unflappable World War II vet who embodies a certain cowboy poetry, Hank is Lou's father - in - law.

For example, Britain's war dead are remembered each year on November 11, with some schools using this occasion as the basis of a cross-curricular project on Remembrance Day, drawing on subjects such as history to provide insights into the First World War and English to discuss war poetwar dead are remembered each year on November 11, with some schools using this occasion as the basis of a cross-curricular project on Remembrance Day, drawing on subjects such as history to provide insights into the First World War and English to discuss war poetWar and English to discuss war poetwar poetry.

And when your entrants range from a chapbook of poetry to a five volume history of World War I, you come to see the necessity of awarding people in their specific genre or field to truly reward their accomplishments.

Ron Silliman contemplates the end of his eight - year poetry blog; a fake Rahm Emanuel lands a book deal; the PEN World Voices Festival all - star lineup is announced; the role of poetry in the Taliban's war strategy; and other news.

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Massive, steely World War II insinuates itself into sentences about, for example, a poetry club at the shipyards (Bladen), or lying on the floor of the empty -LRB-!)

After World War II, Macdonald - Wright became interested in Zen Buddhism and meditation, journeyed to Japan where he established a home and by translating haiku into paintings and woodcut prints, created a form of visual poetry.

An Essex - born intellectual with a lugubrious laugh, Wallinger has over the years taken Jesus, Tommy Cooper, the 1966 World Cup, the first world war, racing, poetry, passion and unseemly goings - on inside a pantomime horse as his subjects, in his examinations of Britishness and national identity, wealth and breeding, religion and poliWorld Cup, the first world war, racing, poetry, passion and unseemly goings - on inside a pantomime horse as his subjects, in his examinations of Britishness and national identity, wealth and breeding, religion and poliworld war, racing, poetry, passion and unseemly goings - on inside a pantomime horse as his subjects, in his examinations of Britishness and national identity, wealth and breeding, religion and politics.

This collection of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record the First World War in poetry draws on letters, memoirs and portraits.

In the «age of anxiety» surrounding the Second World War and the years of free jazz and Beat poetry, artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning broke from accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting.