Resources
Materials for Classroom Use
I. Visions of Glory or Expectations
Eric Blair, "Arise Young Men of England," 1914. (https://seandodson.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/ericblair_edited.jpg)
Owen Seaman, "Pro Patria," 1914. (http://www.bartleby.com/266/15.html),
Jessie Pope, "The Call," 1914. (http://allpoetry.com/poem/8605781-The-Call-by-Jessie-Pope)
Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier," 1915. (http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/soldier)
Jack Judge, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," 1911. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/itsalongwaytotipperary.htm)
Ivor Novello and Lena Gilbert Ford, "Keep the Home Fires Burning," 1914. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/keepthehomefiresburning.htm)
Paul Rubens, "Your King and Country Want You," 1914. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/yourkingandcountrywantyou.htm)
George and Felix Powell, "Pack Up Your Troubles," 1915. (http://www.firstworldwar.com/audio/packupyourtroubles.htm)
II. The Bitter Truth or Resignation
John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields," 1915. (http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm)
Ivor Gurney, "The Silent One," 1917. (http://www.worldwarone.it/2014/01/the-poets-and-world-war-silent-one-by.html)
Mark Sheridan, "Belgium Put the Kibash on the Kaiser," 1915. (http://www.ww1photos.com/KiboshOnKaiserVideo.html)
A.P. Herbert, "The General," circa 1916. (https://www.facebook.com/WW1ayrshiresharvest/posts/575061632531410)
III. No More Jokes
Charlotte Mary Mew, "June, 1915," 1915. (http://allpoetry.com/June-1915)
Charles Hamilton Sorley, "To Germany," 1915. (http://www.poemhunter.com/charles-hamilton-sorley/)
Arthur Graeme West, "God, How I Hate You!" 1916.
(http://allpoetry.com/God!-How-I-Hate-You!)
Siegfried Sassoon, "The General," 1918. (http://www.bartleby.com/136/12.html)
IV. The Pity of War or Mud
Evelyn Underhill, "Non-Combatants," 1917. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/0/24961283)
Edward Thomas, "Rain," 1916. (http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/rain/)
Charles Hamilton Sorley, "When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead," 1915. (http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/when-you-see-millions-of-the-mouthless-dead/)
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est," 1917. (http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html)
V. The Wounded and the Dead
Wilfred Owen, "Disabled," 1917. (http://allpoetry.com/Disabled)
Siegfried Sassoon, "Does It Matter," 1918. (http://www.bartleby.com/136/14.html)
May Herschel-Clarke, "The Mother," 1917. (http://allpoetry.com/poem/8600857-The-Mother-by-May-Herschel-Clarke)
VI. Aftermath
Rudyard Kipling, "Epitaphs of War, 1922.
(http://www.bartleby.com/364/202.html)
Sara Teasdale, "There Will Come Soft Rains," 1920. (http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/there-will-come-soft-rains/)
A.E. Housman, "Here Dead We Lie," 1936. (http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/housman.html)
Edwin Brock, "Five Ways to Kill a Man," 1972. (http://worlds-poetry.com/edwin_brock/five_ways_to_kill_a_man)
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