THEME 16
Poetry and Fiction of War and Social Conflict
(ISBN-10: 1-4282-6260-1)
Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
September. 1918
Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (IV) [4], [5]
From The Cantos
XLV [“With usura hath no man a house of good stone”]
From CXX
[“M’amour, m’amour”]
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961)
From The Walls Do Not Fall [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 11, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 34, 35,
36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43]
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965)
The Waste Land
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
Dirge Without Music
Apostrophe to Man
The Return
[I will put chaos into fourteen lines]
Claude McKay (1889–1948)
If We Must Die
In Bondage
Baptism
[The white man is a tiger at my throat]
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962)
I sing of Olaf glad and big
next to of course god america i
Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976)
[“How shall we mourn you who are killed and wasted”]
[“In Steel Clouds”]
From Holocaust
Children
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“Soldier's Home“
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
Negro Hero
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
From Notes Towards a Supreme Fiction
[“Soldier, there is a war between the mind”]
Richard Eberhart (1904–2005)
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
Poem (“I Lived in the first century of world wars”)