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Friday, November 13, 2009

WWI Poet Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen is a well-known poet and soldier from WWI who met his doom just 7 days before the war's end. We listened to his poem Dulce Et Decorum Es in class (The First Video Posted)...





Here now in the second posting is yet another one of Owen's works from the time. In his writing he helped bring to life the brutality and futility of WWI as millions of your men and women lost their lives in a new kind of war, with the creation of modern warfare...


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History Quotes

We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy