https://shellshockpopularculturearchive.com/omeka/files/original/4c5a185d9f7d24ab908d86d761c67119.jpg d29a62fd4a3cefd4dfb6211d47b73cf2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource War Poetry Subject The topic of the resource Poetry of the First World War Description An account of the resource During the First World War, writers responded to this international upheaval. While early war poetry lauded values such as bravery, courage, and patriotism, later war poetry dealt with the horrors of war and its lasting impact. This collection reflects later war poetry, though it includes some earlier war poems as well. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914-1928 Language A language of the resource English Poem Language sung, chanted, spoken, or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes the relationships between words on the basis of sound as well as sense: this pattern is almost always a rhythm or metre, which may be supplemented by rhyme or alliteration or both. The demands of verbal patterning usually make poetry a more condensed medium than prose or everyday speech, often involving variations in syntax, the use of special words and phrases (poetic diction) peculiar to poets, and a more frequent and more elaborate use of figures of speech, principally metaphor and simile. All cultures have their poetry, using it for various purposes from sacred ritual to obscene insult, but it is generally employed in those utterances and writings that call for heightened intensity of emotion, dignity of expression, or subtlety of meditation. Poetry is valued for combining pleasures of sound with freshness of ideas, whether these be solemn or comical. Some critics make an evaluative distinction between poetry, which is elevated or inspired, and verse, which is merely clever or mechanical. The three major categories of poetry are narrative, dramatic, and lyric, the last being the most extensive. "poetry." Oxford Reference. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100333227 If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire ever can warm me I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way. Dickinson/Higginson Correspondence: 16 August 1870 (Letter 342) http://archive.emilydickinson.org/correspondence/higginson/jnl342.html Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rear-Guard Subject The topic of the resource War poem by Siegfried Sassoon Description An account of the resource In April 1917, Sassoon’s company with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers supported a French assault on the supposedly secure German defenses, known as the Hindenburg Line. His 1917 poem “The Rear-Guard (Hindenburg Line, April, 1917)” is based upon this attack. In this poem, a soldier, lost in the maze of the trenches, demands directions of a man he finds curled in the mud. Enraged, the soldier kicks the man, only to discover “the livid face” of the curled corpse who formed the rear-guard, whose “fists of fingers clutched a blackening wound” (15-18). Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Siegfried Sassoon Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Published in<em> Fifty Poems; Counter Attack And Other Poems</em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1917 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Berg Collection, New York Public Library / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate. This item is available for non-commercial educational use under the terms of the Jisc Model Licence. Further details available at: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/permitteduse Relation A related resource <a href="ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9785">ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/9785</a>