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Wilfrid Owen's poetry is powerful, rhythmic stuff. It's not gloomy so much as redhot despair. I recently watched Peter Jackson's #theyshallnotgrowold , which was beautifully done. Despite the graphic nature of the subject (all of it is restored WWI footage), the strange thing was often it was said by veterans that they enjoyed the life of the army and trudging. The strangest aspect was hearing that on return, society really had no interest in what happened to them. Interesting film (best of its kind), and great poetry by Owen - only related by the topic of war here, I didn't find any connection in the film. #wilfridowen #poetry #wwipoetry #peterjackson #film #documentary #sonnet (at Nashville, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt6C7omAmLD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=182k7z7ozl9ez

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John McCrae “In Flanders Fields” died today in 1918

He discarded draft of "In Flanders Fields” the poem that would come to symbolize WWI, but a fellow soldier retrieved & convinced him to publish. https://americanliterature.com/author/john-mccrae/poem/in-flanders-fields

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T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

Born today in 1888, his haunting vision of society in WWI aftermath: “I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

https://americanliterature.com/author/ts-eliot/poem/the-waste-land