Monday, March 01, 2004

 

I was reading something the other day wherein the author claimed that most "war poetry" is about the bravery and glory of war. I must be reading different war poetry. When I think of "war poetry," what comes to mind is "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," "i sing of olaf," "Naming of Parts, "Base Details," "Dulce et Decorum est," "The Lost Pilot," and "War is Kind."

Hardly bravery and glory. Thinking harder, the only two poems I could think of that even wavered in that direction were "In Flanders Fields" and "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and even they're hardly, "Hurrah, hurrah, and an artillery round"-type fare. They're more about doing your duty than revelling in the bloodshed.

Maybe the writer was thinking of the Illiad?

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