Is there any pro war poetry?

Question

I'm not pro war or anything, i just need some for an English assignment.

Answer 1

Annabella got it!

Plus, there are some others written in the 17th and 18th centuries by the Great Writers of those centuries.

Good Morning!

Answer 2

While there are not as many out and out war-mongering poems that spring to mind, i can think of one that is fiercely patriotic and borders on glorifying the army. The Soilder by Rupert Brooke:

If I should die, think only this of me:

That there's some corner of a foreign field

That is for ever England. There shall be

In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;

A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,

Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,

A body of England's, breathing English air,

Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

A pulse in the eternal mind, no less

Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;

Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;

And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,

In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

Answer 3

Go to the army get your head blown off

It doesn't matter if it's hard or soft

It doesn't matter if your over eighteen

Get killed by an M16

Answer 4

Sigfried Sasson wrote some pro war poems, until he changed his mind after being in WWI.

A famous pro-war poem, kind of, is "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson: http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade....

For the most part, language cannot lie and language is anti-war. Humanity is anti-war. Poetry is language and humanity, so innately it is anti-war. Robert Bly said every poem is an anti-war poem, and he's right for the most part. When he's wrong, it's when the poem is deliberately written in a pro-war stance, and it is usually awful, and obviously so. Or it is written in a sophmoric, philosophy-major sort of way.

But yes, a few exist. So please reference the ones mentioned.

Homer is not pro-war. War is one of the subjects of the Iliad.

Answer 5

Homer, The Iliad.