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In 2007, Archie Weller published a poem titled the ‘Unknown Soldier’ (Weller 2007) which gives a name, voice, history and character to the soldier-larrikin and anti-hero whose bones lie there, effectively challenging
The Unknown Soldier: The Poetry of John Allan Wyeth I John Allan Wyeth is the missing figure in the American literature of World War I-a soldier poet still worth reading. Little known in his own lifetime, he has been utterly forgotten by posterity. Even scholars and historians of the period don't recog nize his name.
In order to unaerstand why the poets do so, we must understand the nature of a poet, that in which he differs from the rank and file of other human beings. The poet is a poet because he is blessed (or cursed) with exceptional sensitivity to the truth. A real poet is always, in'some sense, a prophet or seer.
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Subjects: Export this record. 'Archie Weller clearly shows himself as a poet for the underdog feeling a misfit at his boarding school and after leaving, immersing himself in Aboriginality absorbing the lifestyle and legends of a wide circle of Aboriginal friends from all walks of life.
While Brault's poem may be an example of experiential nostalgia, as Clarkson reads part of it before the nation, within the context of the eulogy to the Unknown Soldier, she transposes the lines into cultural nostalgia.
The main themes of the poem are patriotism and nationhood. Whilst the speaker fears death, he believes that it is right to die for his country. The form is a sonnet making it almost like a love letter to England. England is personified, like a mother figure.
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unknown soldier is an unidentified soldier killed in war and chosen to be interred with national honors as a representative of all those who died in a war.
