help help help!!!

[happyducky]

i need to write a presentation comparing two poems one pre 1914 and one post, with similar themes. i'm supposed to present this tomorrow and i'm drawing a blank, can anyone help?

[pega]

THIS is an interesting theme is it a school project ? I think as you mention the dates you are looking 1914 the great war of Flanders there are some lovely poems about Flanders fields,  and again some after Victory if you look on google  owen was a great poet and sasoon  I believe he was the one who lived at Granchester remember the poem is the clock still at 10 to 3 (Yes it still is)   Also some hymns were poems set to music, I hope this is of some help. Have you any books of poems, to research  from  there is a site poems and poets may be of use. Anyway best of luck don't burn the midnight oil

(I have an interest in Poetry have had about 22 published in various books not done much writing lately but hope to take notebooks with me to my Trip in 3 weeks time to the Holy Land should be inspiration in places of historic interest. that's an aside  but just mention it for interest)

[oOBubblesOo]

1914 - 1916

Rupert Brooke

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His
hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,
Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,...

[oOBubblesOo]

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Wilfred Owen
1916
So Abram rose, and clave the wood and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

[oOBubblesOo]

instead of posting all the ones I think are helpful I will post the site

 

http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/poems.html

[missmooncat]

Dunno if any of these are any good ,owen too

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm#7