Brigidine College

Library Pathfinder

Year 12

Protest Poetry

Book Resources

The general poetry number in the library is 808 and 821

Some subject headings with which you can search the library databases and the internet are:

Poetry, war Poetry - environment Poetry - prisoners Poetry - race relations Poetry - racism Poetry - women

Poetry – social comment Poetry – cruelty Poetry – prejudices Poetry – political Poetry - hate

Online Databases

Encyclopedia Britannica Online can be accessed from within the College

Article from Britannica Online
The traumatic effect of World War I on the collective psyche of Europeans was reflected in the outpouring of literature that directly dealt with the war. Most of the works inspired by the war were infused with a sense of disillusionment, and some had a pointedly antiwar spirit.

The earliest works to capture the war experience came from the so-called war poets. Among the first of the British poets to write about his firsthand experience in the war was Rupert Brooke, whose sonnets, published posthumously in the volume ‘1914' (1915), are characterized by a romanticization of battle. The patriotism in Brooke's poetry was replaced by anger in the works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Sassoon's experience as an officer turned him toward pacifism, and his poems, collected in ‘Counter-Attack' (1918) and other volumes, expressed rage toward supporters of the war. The most accomplished of the war poets was Wilfred Owen, whose poems of 1917–18 combined the anger of Sassoon with compassion for his fellow soldiers. Owen's single volume of poems, published posthumously by Sassoon in 1920, demonstrates a breadth of emotion and a technical virtuosity unmatched by the other war poets. (See also English Literature.)

Novels inspired by World War I began appearing soon after the conflict ended. ‘Three Soldiers' (1921) by John Dos Passos, ‘The Enormous Room' (1922) by E.E. Cummings, and ‘A Farewell to Arms' (1929) by Ernest Hemingway are among the most notable, but Eric Maria Remarque's ‘All Quiet on the Western Front' (1929), a powerful depiction of day-to-day trench warfare, may be the work most closely associated with the war. A classic work of postwar nonfiction is Robert Graves's ‘Goodbye to All That' (1929), a prose memoir of his war experiences. The influence of the war is also evident in postwar modernist works that do not deal directly with the conflict. (See also Warfare.)

Internet Sites

Poetic terms, techniques and form	General poetry sites	War poetry
Racism	Environmental poetry

Poetry terms, techniques and form

A glossary of poetic terms
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/poetterm.cfm

A glossary of poetic devices

http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/poetry2.htm

A glossary of poetry terms

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/pmglossary1.html

Literary terms
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms

Glossary of poetic terms
http://www.poeticbyway.com/glossary.html

Poetry Analysis Fact Sheet
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/analysis.html

How to explicate a poem
http://wwwpp.uwrf.edu/~sl01/explcat.html

An introduction to poetry by Billy Collins
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/poetry/apple.html

Poems by form
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/forms.do

Forms of poetry

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poeform.htm

New to poetry?
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/adultLearners.do

How to read a poem out loud
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-howtoread.html

Rhyme Dictionary
Doug Beeferman's rhyming dictionary can help a poet find suitable rhyming words
http://www.rhymezone.com

Rhyme Poetry
http://rhyme.poetry.com

Women’s Poetry selection

http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/wpoets.html

Write an instant poem
http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

Poetry

General

Poet’s Corner
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems

Classical Poems
http://www.netpoets.com/classic

Poems by themes

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/search.do?method=theme&searchTerm

Volumes of verse. Poetry resources on the Internet
http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr135.shtml

War and Political Poetry

InfoPlease: Wars

Where can I find out about wars?
http://www.infoplease.com/homework/warsfaq.html

John Schumann
”I was only nineteen” the song
http://www.iwvpa.net/schumanj/index.php

Introduction to First World War Poetry

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/projects/jtap/tutorials/intro/intro.html

War Poetry. Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_poets

Political Poetry
http://www.pemmicanpress.com/articles/daggett-political-poetry.html

Editorial on political poetry. Poetry London

http://www.poetrylondon.co.uk/index.htm?edits/edit48.htm

War Poetry

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry

Vietnam War poetry

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/warpoetry

Poetry and torture
http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2004winter/23-Sept-Dec-Torture.pdf

When doves cry

Political poetry address the wider world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301705.html

DC Poetry against the war
http://dcpaw.mahost.org/poems.html

Poets against war
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/poemsoftheweek.asp

Poems on war

http://www.poetry-archive.com/collections/poems_on_war.html

Treasury of war poetry
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/toc_twp.htm

Social, political and anti war poems
http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/id125.html

Vietnam War Poetry

http://www.vietnamwar.net/poetry/poetry.htm

The Wartime Issue

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/browningintro.html

World War 11 Prisoners of War Poetry

http://www.merkki.com/poetry.htm

War poetry co.uk
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk

Poems about war
http://www.caterina.net/paw

Poetry Foundation
http://poetryfoundation.org/archive/tool.poem.cat.7.1.html?id=59

Poetry images and poetry of the Great War
http://www.pitt.edu/~pugachev/greatwar/poetry.htm

The poems of Wilfred Owen

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

Modern History Source Book

British War Poetry
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html

Poetry and Vietnam
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/vietnam/poetryandvietnam.htm

Vietnam War Poetry
by Lachlan Irvine
http://lachlanirvine.tripod.com/poetry/id1.html

Vietnam War Poetry
http://www.vietnamexp.com/guestpoets/menu.html

Poems. Vietnam War
http://maori2000.com/moller/poems.htm

Poetry of Concentration Camps
http://www.telisphere.com/~cearley/sean/camps/german.htm

Poetry from Japanese Camps in the USA
http://www.telisphere.com/~cearley/sean/camps/japamer.htm

War Poems
http://www.love-poems.me.uk/a_war_poems_index.htm

Italian War poetry
http://www.worldwar1.com/sfip1.htm

Kosovo War poetry
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/Kos_index.htm

Poems after the attack

http://poetry.about.com/od/ourpoemcollections/a/poemsafterattac.htm

An appreciation of “Homecoming by Bruce Dawe”

http://werple.net.au/~greg.hub/lifecycle.html

Environmental Poetry

Environment Poetry
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/stories/poem_act/environment_poetry.html

The Environmental Art and Poetry Gallery
(Contributed by talented young artists and young writers)
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/gallerytx.htm

Creature connection poetry
http://www.all-creatures.org/cc/poetry.html

For better or verse.

For Robert Hass, poetry is part of the eco-arsenal – An interview
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/10/13/hass

Poetry

There's a long tradition of poetry inspired by nature.

http://faculty.maryvillecollege.edu/trevathan/creativewriting/poetry.htm


On Poetry. Mark O’Connor. Includes his understanding of what is poetry.
http://www.olympicpoet.com/mark/poetry.htm

Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) - Author of Trees and Other Poems
http://www.risingdove.com/Kilmer/Trees.asp

The new breed. Darren Rieck
http://darrenrieck.com/poetry.html

Environment Poems. BBC (2 poems)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/jersey/space/poetry/environment.shtml

The environmental poetry of Anjela Duval (2 poems)
http://www.breizh.net/anjela/saozneg/environmental_poetry1.php

King Poetry.com

The poetry and funny thoughts of Australian writer Graeme King
http://www.kingpoetry.com/penviro.htm

Environment (2 poems)
http://www.boloji.com/poetry/themes/environment.htm

Protest Poetry : Racism

Harlem Renaissance
http://www.worldbook.com/features/aawriters/html/harlem.html

Poems from Other Cultures and Traditions
http://www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/workunits/ks4/poetry/poemsfocat.html

On "Sisters in Arms"
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lorde/sisters.htm

The word/the blues. A meditation. Investigating blues poetry, an old tradition
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_2_6/ai_n6068726/pg_4

Subject: Political Poetry
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject:political%20poetry

BEGINNING AT THE BITTER END: The Poetry Of Bob Kaufman
http://www.poembeat.com/winter2006/essays_bitterend.htm

The Dream of Equality
http://home.earthlink.net/~judylightfoot/doug.html

That Was Then, This Is Now

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/02/15/105003.php

Rewi Alley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewi_Alley

Latino Lives

http://www.ci.pasadena.ca.us/libraryteens/booklists/Latino%20Lives%20Booklist.asp

The Poetry of Politics: Australian Aboriginal Verse
http://epress.anu.edu.au/bwwp/mobile_devices/ch08.html

Judith Wright (1915-2000): Australian Poet & Prophet

http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/staffhome/gehall/Judith.htm

Rap poets' society

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/02/1072908895037.html?from=storyrhs