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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
1914 AND AFTER, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography First Line: Would you end war? Last Line: So surely will your selfishness bring war. Subject(s): Peace; War | |||
Would you end war? Create great Peace. ... The Peace that demands all of a man, His love, his life, his veriest self; Plunge him into the smelting fires of a work that becomes his child, Give him a hard Peace; a Peace of discipline and justice. ... Kindle him with vision, invite him to joy and adventure; Set him to work, not to create things But to create man; Yea, himself. Go, search your heart, America ... Turn from the machine to man, Build, while there is yet time, a creative Peace. ... While there is yet time! ... For if you reject great Peace, As surely as vile living brings disease, So surely will your selfishness bring war. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I AM YOUR WAITER TONIGHT AND MY NAME IS DIMITRI by ROBERT HASS MITRAILLIATRICE by ERNEST HEMINGWAY RIPARTO D'ASSALTO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY WAR VOYEURS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SO MANY BLOOD-LAKES by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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