I'm looking for this poem that I read in high school for use in a college class, but I can't find it! It was in an anthology book in my high school's library, which is of course now not anywhere near me!
The poem is approximately 20-30 lines long, and it talks about how old men talk and tell the children about war, and when the second world war starts, they all enlist. It basically paints the older generation as talking up the war, and the children as ignoring the lessons of the first war... The last line ends in "and they went" or something like that.
Any leads?
2007-09-06 16:24:02 · 4 answers · asked by calliope320 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
The British poet Stephen Spender wrote many poems about war, it's aftermath and the stupidity of dying and killing for the wrong reasons. This sounds like something he would have written.
2007-09-06 18:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by Doc Watson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I enjoyed the Catcher contained in the Rye. I reread it many times lower back. i in my opinion cherished To Kill a Mockingbird besides. i've got constantly needed to examine Fahrenheit 451 yet have not discovered any copies close to the place I stay. My customary poem is a diverse call between track from Maud by Tennyson or Funeral Blues by WH Auden.
2016-10-04 03:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by solarz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the poem, but what you may do is call your high school and ask to talk to the librarian. They could definitely help you in finding it.
2007-09-06 17:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Shadow Lor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
was it jumblies
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/5856/
2007-09-06 17:33:23 · answer #4 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋