Reviews for Poetry of War

The average rating for Poetry of War based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-15 00:00:00 Khalid Shamsher Western culture-centric focus. Lots of interesting analysis here but it can get tedious at times. Everything we know is wrong, well not everything, but it sounds like the "spin" we hear so much about on the news today was employed by the Christian and Victorian translators. Much of the Roman and Greek classics were translated incorrectly and transformed into something they were not intended to be by Virgil and Homer. Chapters on the love of comrades and chivalry were very interesting. Even Bruce Springsteen is mentioned. Listeners attribute meaning that isn't there or deaf to satire. More than poetry this book gets into culture, history,etc. Would have been nice to talk about Islamic angle on war and poetry and other cultures as well.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-01-31 00:00:00 Cleaton Duguid The title of this book is completely accurate, yet really doesn't convey the flavor of the contents. Winn shows how some poets used their poems to question basic assumptions behind war while others used "pro-war" ideals such as honor, chivalry, and patriotism to romanticize war and deny its brutality. You don't have to be a poetry expert to understand this book and it may give you a fresh perspective on current wars.