Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

Auden writes a lot about the political and social issues of his time, including World War II. Warren cites one particular poem in the collection, “September 1, 1939″ in which Auden writes ...