Famous Casualties Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Casualties poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous casualties poems. These examples illustrate what a famous casualties poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Herrick, Robert
...Good things, that come of course, far less do please
Than those which come by sweet contingencies....Read more of this...
by
Jarrell, Randall
...people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."
The said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.
It was not dying --no, not ever dying;
But the night I died I dreamed that I was dead,
And the cities said to me: "Why are you dying?
We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?"...Read more of this...
by
Owen, Wilfred
...Head to limp head, the sunk-eyed wounded scanned
Yesterday's Mail; the casualties (typed small)
And (large) Vast Booty from our Latest Haul.
Also, they read of Cheap Homes, not yet planned;
For, said the paper, "When this war is done
The men's first instinct will be making homes.
Meanwhile their foremost need is aerodromes,
It being certain war has just begun.
Peace would do wrong to our undying dead, --
The sons we...Read more of this...
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