2006-09-15 05:15:51 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
http://www.world-war-2.info/poems/
2006-09-15 05:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by cherokeeflyer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Famous World War 2 Poems
2016-12-08 20:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few more:
Poems by Carl Sandburg, one of my favourites. Scroll down and look for "war poems".
http://www.bartleby.com/165/index1.html
Randall Jarrell's famous-ones:
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/gunner/gunner.html
Eighth Air Force
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/aupoem54.html
A sample from Jarrell:
http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Randall_Jarrell/SamplepoemsRandallJarrell.htm
2006-09-15 08:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by eimuttia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Poetry and War: The Second World War 1939–1948
http://perso.univ-lyon2.fr/~goethals/warpoet/WW2_menu.html
Interesting site with a selection of poetry and (particularly good) a section of short biographies of a mass of major and minor poets who produced work in English during the war years. Created by an associate professor at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in France.
Poetry and War
http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/poetry/index.html
Substantial website on poetry and war in the 20th century. There is a section on World War II, with a selection of poems (including one by Keith Douglas). The site is sponsored by the anti-war Peace Pledge Union and reflects this bias.
World War II Prisoner of War Poetry
http://www.merkki.com/poetry.htm
A selection of poetry by – mainly anonymous – US prisoners of war at Stalag Luft 1 in Germany during the Second World War.
2006-09-15 05:33:48 · answer #4 · answered by solstice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, But you should look into the song "Ring around the rosy"/ poem... that one actually reffers to the nazis.
2006-09-15 05:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by missme 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋