Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

The events of First World War began major changes in British social ... To distract her patients she gave them her album and requested a poem, a drawing or just a few words. The photo is of ...

Anthem for a Doomed Youth, Futility, and An Irish Airman Foresees his Death. The titles of these First World War poems alone tell a tale of despair and hopelessness. Yet despite the brutality of the ...

Milosz left Warsaw shortly before the end of World War II, when almost the entire ... In “Child of Europe,” the first poem “from the New World” here, he writes: Survival, the poem warns ...