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Armistice/Remembrance Day Poems
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because at that time that was the sentiment
regardless of successive events
but no matter
which ever you choose will work
bravo marco
it hangs together quite nicely as a poem
and it's remarkable that you would even consider these sentiments and this quite distant time at your age
i'm sure you are sick of hearing it and i'm sure you can also be a very "immature" young man ;)
but it is when you reach to express all that you know and are learning that you are just a wonderful boy
keep writing poetry
now did you study the poetic form? is it in keeping with memorial poetry?

The main thing that wrecked the peace was that the French and British heads of state decided to use the peace as a vehicle to punish, humiliate, and plunder Germany, put all the blame for the war on Germany (in truth, they all shared responsibility for it), and leave Germany permanently too weak to defend itself. That, in turn, bred the bitterness in Germany that enabled Hitler to come to power.
I like your poem, Marco - it's good that it looks at the reality of the way warfare destroys so many lives and the permanence of that. If more of us realized that when we were young, it might be very difficult to get enough people into uniform to ever have an army in the first place.
There was a documentary on the History Channel recently about one of the best of the war poets from World War I, Siegfried Sassoon - you'd probably find it very interesting if you get the chance to watch it. Sassoon was a young British man, a sheltered member of the aristocratic upper class, who went into the war in France as a junior officer with all those naive illusions so many had. In a short time, though, his brother (to whom he was exceptionally close, even for siblings) was killed at Gallipoli, then one of his closest friends was killed there in France, and he saw a lot of other people in his unit killed - his attitude and poetry changed completely, and he became very anti-war, although he also fought with rare skill and courage, getting the nickname 'Mad Jack' from his fellow soldiers, and was highly decorated.
Robert Graves was another war poet from World War I, and he and Sassoon were close friends.
This is a link to a piece I wrote - it's a prose essay, not poety, but I hope it fits in this string: it's on my MySpace blog - scroll down to the essay titled "The Nature of the Job": http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fus...
This, believe it or not, was the subject of my M.A. thesis - the war poetry of the Great War.
You made me giggle!
You made me giggle!

Best books on the beginnings of WW1 are Barbara Tuchman's"The Proud Tower" "The Guns of August" & from a US perspective "The Zimmerman telegram."
On of the best poets I believe was Wilfred Owen who was killed at the end of the war.
Marco, keep up with the poetry. You are doing a great job on your revisions.

look up poetic metre
and memorial poetry
i like the new sentiments you incorporated in the second verse about peace and peace of mind
it does switch rhythm as your friend indicates
if you really want to work with the form you will have to study the different forms of metered verse
i'm not good at it-i'm a free verse enthusiast instead
poetry incorporats rhythms
each line and verse set to a specific rhythm
iambic pentameter is the most common (a 5 beat line)
i think you could master most of the common forms easily as you already have a feel for it
look it up marco
look it up :)
you've got things to say and i look forward to hearing them
I grew up knowing that my aunt's husband (I never met him} was in a hospital for being gassed in the Great War. My aunt was proud that he had fought in the "War to end all waars." When he first came home, he was OK, but his lungs kept getting worse. He died the summer that Hitler invaded Poland -- the family said it was good he didn't know about that. That his war to end all wars was now known as world War 1.