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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 REWARD by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE by SIMONIDES OF CEOS FAR EAST by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AN OLD DREAM by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE THE STORM by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH FO'C'S'LE YARNS: 1ST SERIES. SPIES ALTERA; TO THE FUTURE MANX POET by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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