A poet who can make you cry?

bellajavier · Post by **bellajavier** » 29 Mar 2020, 09:11

For me, it's Wilfred Owen, because of his amazing work.

He writes anti war poems and this one is my absolute favorite.

Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way
To the siding-shed,
And lined the train with faces grimly gay.

Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray
As men's are, dead.

Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp
Stood staring hard,
Sorry to miss them from the upland camp.
Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp
Winked to the guard.

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.
They were not ours:
We never heard to which front these were sent.

Nor there if they yet mock what women meant
Who gave them flowers.

Shall they return to beatings of great bells
In wild trainloads?
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads.

Has any author or poet every made you cry?

Aaditya rathore 7773 · Post by **Aaditya rathore 7773** » 23 Apr 2020, 11:53

it's Wilfred Owen, because of his amazing work.
The was amazing poetry. the think about non violence. The was amazing.

Jaylinmichelle23 · Post by **Jaylinmichelle23** » 24 Apr 2020, 01:09

This means so much to me bc my father in law was in the war for a long time. I realized how much it effected him by how emotions came out during the time of us enjoying our drinks. I realized that there isn’t enough words to express this poem and what people feel that has actually been through the war and lost people. I love it

Lady-of-Literature · Post by **Lady-of-Literature** » 19 May 2020, 19:48

Shane Koyczan poem, "The crickets have arthritis," moved me in a way I didn't I could be moved. His work is beautiful.

Mariebooklover · Post by **Mariebooklover** » 05 Jun 2020, 09:51

This paragraph gives me a feeling that I can not describe it has a vibe so hard to describe but unique
It remembers me when my father used to tell me stories about his life when he was 15 and had to go to war in nic those were so hard for him and I can see sadness in his eyes still so this is the kind of book that I would read to him

Atechaminor+1978 · Post by **Atechaminor+1978** » 08 Jun 2020, 22:26

It started off kinda sad but then you continue to read the poem if which you start to understand what he's talking about I think it's a very good poem very well written