https://shellshockpopularculturearchive.com/omeka/files/original/b130dadb94277f7848c6ec1df721ac8e.jpg fcbe17c1e6297c53936b7ec68b6a08a9 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 Break of Day in the Trenches Subject The topic of the resource War Poetry by Isaac Rosenberg Description An account of the resource This draft of Break of Day In the Trenches was typed and set by Annie Rosenberg, possibly in June, while Isaac Rosenberg created the written annotations, likely in July. Rosenberg’s earlier poetry betrays his Romantic influences. In “Break of Day in the Trenches,” Rosenberg describes a “queer sardonic rat” leaping over his hand as he pulls “the parapet’s poppy / to stick behind my ear” (4-6). Despite the threat of disease and harm which most rats posed in the trenches, this rat is deserting the trench for German lines, a deserter who is not punished. Rosenberg addresses the rat directly as he ponders how the young men in the trench are less likely to survive the war than the rat, who may come and go as he pleases. In this poem, Rosenberg’s poppy remains behind his ear, white with dust from the ground above the trench. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Isaac Rosenberg Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1469">http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/1469</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource June 1916 - July 1916 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The Imperial War Museum/The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate http://www.iwm.org.uk/ isaac rosenberg poem war poetry