Rendezvous with Death: American Poems of the Great WarMark W. Van Wienen University of Illinois Press, 2002 - Počet stran: 363 This masterfully assembled volume, arranged chronologically, reveals American poets' shifting, conflicting reactions to the war and highlights their efforts to shape U.S. policies and define American attitudes. In his introduction, Mark W. Van Wienen describes the rapid, politically charged responses possible in a culture attuned to poetry. His historical and biographical notes provide a sturdy framework for the study of poetry's role in social activism and change during the "war to end war." The most complete resource of its kind, Rendezvous with Death brings together poetry originally published in little magazines, labor journals, newspapers, and wartime anthologies. Alight with sorrow, grace, silliness, satire, pride, and anger, works by IWW members, sock poets, pacifists, and protestors take their places next to those by Edith Wharton, Alan Seeger, Wallace Stevens, James Weldon Johnson, Amy Lowell, and Claude McKay. |
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PRESENTIMENTS | 37 |
America the Beautiful | 41 |
The AngloSaxon Christians with Gatling gun and sword | 42 |
A Few Words from Wilhelm | 43 |
Black Samson of Brandywine | 45 |
Should I Ever Be a Soldier | 46 |
O say can you see you who glory in war | 47 |
AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1914 | 49 |
The Traitor | 164 |
The Consequentious Objector | 165 |
The Consequentious Objector | 166 |
The American Conscript | 168 |
A War Change | 170 |
IF A Mother to Her Daughter | 172 |
Peace Hath Her Belgiums | 173 |
WarTime Cradle Song | 175 |
The German American to His Adopted Country | 55 |
The Womans Cry | 56 |
Ready to Kill | 58 |
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight | 59 |
I Doubt | 61 |
War | 62 |
A Chant of Hate against England | 64 |
Motherhoods Chant | 65 |
The AntiMilitarist | 66 |
The Metal Checks | 67 |
The Camp Follower | 71 |
Unser Gott | 73 |
Ten thousand Tommy Atkinses went fourth into the fray | 75 |
A Scrap of Paper | 76 |
1915 | 79 |
I Didnt Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier | 87 |
From This War | 88 |
To a War Poet | 90 |
Buttons | 91 |
Battle Cry of the Mothers | 92 |
Five Souls | 94 |
To My Country | 95 |
Missionary and Hottentot | 96 |
The White Ships and the Red | 97 |
Twas You Who Raised Your Boy to Be a Soldier | 100 |
MORC | 101 |
The Neutral | 102 |
The Return of August | 105 |
The Return | 107 |
XIV | 109 |
XV | 110 |
Champagne 191415 | 113 |
What For? | 115 |
Edith Cavell | 117 |
The Ballad of Bethlehem Steel or The Need for Preparedness | 119 |
1916 | 121 |
Hymn of Hate | 129 |
The Tryst | 130 |
O Glorious France | 131 |
The Women of England | 133 |
National Anthem | 134 |
Preparedness | 135 |
At Carrizal | 136 |
The Naturalized Alien | 137 |
Retribution | 139 |
Vive la France | 140 |
I Have a Rendezvous with Death | 142 |
In Flanders Fields | 143 |
1917 | 145 |
Not to Keep | 155 |
Soldiers to Pacifists | 156 |
Orange of Midsummer | 157 |
Essen | 158 |
The Lavoir | 159 |
The Machine | 161 |
From Mr Asquith and the British Government | 163 |
To the Beloved of One Dead | 176 |
Battle Hymn of the Russian Republic | 177 |
When the Cock Crows | 179 |
The Sayings of Patsy 30 September | 183 |
The SoapBox | 186 |
The Retinue | 189 |
Made Safe for Democracy | 190 |
Bread | 192 |
The Picket | 193 |
The Sayings of Patsy 21 October | 194 |
The Four Brothers | 196 |
To America | 201 |
To the Patriotic Lady across the Way | 203 |
Father OShea | 204 |
The Sayings of Patsy 30 December | 205 |
1918 | 209 |
Poetic Justice | 219 |
Freebournes Rifle | 220 |
What We Are Fighting For | 221 |
You Were So White So Soft | 222 |
The Captain Said | 223 |
Ode to Tonsilitis | 224 |
From Lettres dun Soldat | 225 |
VII | 226 |
IX | 227 |
Consequences | 228 |
The Jazz Bird | 229 |
At Bethlehem | 230 |
The Red Coffins | 231 |
Sock Song | 232 |
The 367th Infantry | 233 |
The Prayer Rug of Islam | 234 |
The National Game | 236 |
Enthusiasts | 237 |
Fire of the Sun | 240 |
My Aunts Little Note | 241 |
On Active Service | 243 |
At the Peace Table | 244 |
The New Day | 246 |
To a Black Soldier Fallen in the War | 247 |
REPERCUSSIONS | 249 |
The Unemployed Soldier | 259 |
Thoughts Inspired by a WarTime Billboard | 260 |
I Am Revolution | 261 |
The Little Peoples | 262 |
If We Must Die | 263 |
Poppies | 264 |
Mr Byran Enters Arlington | 265 |
Ballad of Gene Debs | 268 |
Notes | 277 |
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Acknowledgments | 349 |
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