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John McCrae | "In Flanders Fields" |
John McCrae | His poem gives voice to hundreds of thousands dead in Flanders cemeteries only a few months into the war. |
Rupert Brooke | "The Soldier" |
Rupert Brooke | Wrote a poem about how enthusiastically men would rush to the war front. |
Wilfred Owen | "Dulce et Decorum Est" |
Wilfred Owen | Wrote about the horror of men wounded and dying from gas chambers. |
Robert Graves | "The Trenches" |
Robert Graves | Uses imagery of a large (macrocosmic) and small (microcosmic) universe to show his take on war. |
Siegfried Sassoon | "Trench Duty" |
Siegfried Sassoon | Wrote a poem from the eyes of a soldier who wonders after seeing someone killed why he is still alive. |
Erich Maria Remarque | "All Quiet on the Western Front" |
Erich Maria Remarque | Wrote a novel from the point of view of a young German soldier. He didn't glorify war which lead to the Nazi's hatred of him. Forcing him to leave Germany in 1931. |
Djuna Barnes | "How it Feels To Be Forcibly Fed" |
Djuna Barnes | With no prior knowledge she sketched a haunting illustration for the cover of Trend portraying an emaciated, naked soldier, carrying only a rifle with a bayonet as he stalks over a dead body across a ruined landscape where a hand reaches upward from the trench. |
Colette | Wrote and documented the war front firsthand. |
Colette | She was a French writer. |
Mary Rinehart | She was an American writer sent to write about the "plight of the Belgian army" |
Mary Rinehart | Wrote about the beauty and odor of the flooded trench that was build and flooded to slow down the German army. |
Rebecca West | She is a British writer. Wrote an article "Hands That War: The Cordite Makers" |
Rebecca West | Most women authors chose to write about the war front, she chose to write about the home front and the dangerous working conditions of the women working to produce cordite. |
Katherine Mansfield | She wrote "The Fly" |
Katherine Mansfield | Satirized the lack of importance of human life. |
Gertrude Stein | Wrote the "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" |
Gertrude Stein | Decided to try to help the war effort and ordered a Ford truck from the U.S. to deliver medical supplies to the French wounded. |
Frieda Schanz | Wrote a poem called "Silence" |
Frieda Schanz | German poet who's poem suggests Germans victory as just a calm before the storm. |
Edith Stilwell | Wrote "The Dancers" |
Edith Stilwell | This author wrote a journal called "Wheels" where she published several of Wilfred Owen's poems. |
Vera Brittain | She was a British writer that wrote "Testament of Youth" which tracked the course of her life from 1900 to 1925 |
Vera Brittain | This author, after suffering the lose of her fiance and later found out about the death of her brother, became a peace activist. |