Bedelaar naast koets koning George V / King George V accosted by a beggar. Welcome. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 7000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research.
The heart of the archive consists of collections of highly valued primary material from major poets of the period, including Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, and Edward Thomas. This is supplemented by a comprehensive range of multimedia artefacts from the Imperial War Museum, a separate archive of over 6,500 items contributed by the general public, and a set of specially developed educational resources. These educational resources include an exciting new exhibition in the three-dimensional virtual world Second Life. Freely available to the public as well as the educational community, the First World War Poetry Digital Archive is a significant resource for studying the First World War and the literature it inspired. Dulce et Decorum Est.
Dominic Hibberd on Wilfred Owen. The Life of Wilfred Owen What sort of background did Owen come from?
Wilfred Owen came from a lower middle class background. His father was a railway official, a stationmaster for awhile, and then monsignor. He never earned very much money, but he earned as much as, say, a schoolteacher. He made a manageable wage, but they were never wealthy. Wilfred Owen's mother was a very pious evangelical, and I think the father was probably also more religious than is generally believed. This is an interesting point. I think that neither Owen nor anybody else born into the lower middle class in England at that time was entirely comfortable in their skin. Everything in his life adds up to his poetry, it all reappears in the poetry somehow. Did Owen have a direction that he was heading in, or was he sort of lost? Owen was a committed poet from his late teens onwards. What happened when the war started? When the war broke out, Owen was working as a tutor in France for a family in the Pyrenees.
Sassoon. Move Him Into The Sun. Welcome. Hiroshima Poetry, Prose and Art. The HyperTexts Hiroshima Poetry, Prose and Art Related pages: Sandy Hook Poems, Aurora Poetry, Columbine Poems, Courtni Webb's Sandy Hook Poem and Possible Expulsion, Darfur Poems, Gaza Poems, Haiti Poems, Hiroshima Poems, Holocaust Poems, Nakba Poems, 911 Poems, Trail of Tears The intense heat and light of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts left behind ghostly silhouettes of human beings whose lives were erased in an instant.
Hiroshima Shadowsby Michael R. Burch Hiroshima shadows, mother and child ... The following is one of the best poems about Hiroshima that I have read to date. Let Us Be Midwives! Midnight . . . the basement of a shattered building . . . atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness . . . not a single candle between them . . . the odor of blood . . . the stench of death . . . the sickly-sweet smell of decaying humanity . . . the groans . . . the moans . . . Oh, fallen camellias, if I were you, I'd leap into the torrent! The best poets are truth-tellers.