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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MASSACRES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first day the germans came into the city Last Line: The officers poured kerosene under them %and set it on fire | |||
The Jews in Spain And the Moors In the Christian states of Spain, And again the Jews And the Moors; In Hungary, the Turkish wars; In America, the Indian wars; The Boer War, the Philippine War; Russia and the Jews; In China, the Boxer War; The Russian Revolution; The Chinese Revolution. The massacre of the Armenians And the Assyrians In Turkey; The persecution of the Jews In Russia, Roumania, Austria, And in Germany and Poland The pogroms. The Inquisition in Spain; The Massacre of St. Bartholomew; The Thirty Years' War; The Peasants' War; The English Civil War; The American Revolution; The Terror in France; The Commune in Paris. The barbarians and the Romans; The invasion of the Huns; The wars of the Northmen; The Crusades. The persecutions of the Waldenses And the Huguenots; The conquest of Mexico and Peru; The slave trade; The Boer War, the Philippine War; The World War. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES by THOMAS HARDY SPECIMEN OF AN INDUCTION TO A POEM by JOHN KEATS THE PESSIMIST by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING ST. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE ARMADA; A FRAGMENT by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THE HAYSTACK IN THE FLOODS by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) |
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