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Soldiers’ Poems of World War I in Newspapers: Personal Responses in Public Media

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

How can you share your response to a major world event? In the 19th and early 20th centuries, you might have put your thoughts down in a poem and sent it to a newspaper. The 1918 entry of the United States into World War I triggered an especially dramatic outpouring of these personal responses in verse.