An Italian poet had noticed plainclothes policemen lounging around the area of Quirinal Palace, the first time since the war.

Although the poet maintains the theme of possessions as important even in death, the glory of battle is challenged by the vicious nature of war.

In " Into Battle " ( 1915 ), the war poet Julian Grenfell invokes the superhuman characteristics of the Kestrel among several birds, when hoping for prowess in battle:

Part of the war motif could be a metaphor for the poet in a competitive struggle with the reader in order to push his own vision and ideas upon his audience.

* 1890 – Isaac Rosenberg, English war poet and artist ( d. 1918 )

Writing during the reign of the Emperor Domitian ( AD 81 – 96 ), the Roman poet Martial expressed his admiration for Otho's choice to spare the Empire from civil war through sacrificing himself:

He was a cavalier poet who fought on behalf of the king during the Civil war.

The rebellion was described by Jordan Fantosme, a contemporary poet, as a " war without love ".

Among the Berliners they encounter in their wanderings is an old man named Homer, who, unlike the Greek poet of war Homer, dreams of an " epic of peace.

* April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg, British war poet ( b. 1890 )

* August 3 – Rupert Brooke, British war poet ( d. 1915 )

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

A devoted father to his daughter Valentina ( wife of Louis, Duke of Orleans and mother of the famous poet, Charles of Orleans ), Gian Galeazzo reacted to gossip about Valentina at the French Court by threatening to declare war on France.

Rolf Jacobsen achieved recognition as a poet of modernistic style after the war.

Rupert Chawner Brooke ( middle name sometimes given as " Chaucer ") ( 3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915 ) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially " The Soldier ".

As a war poet Brooke came to public attention in 1915 when The Times Literary Supplement quoted two of his five sonnets ( IV: The Dead and V: The Soldier ) in full on 11 March and his sonnet V: The Soldier was read from the pulpit of St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Sunday ( 4 April ).

Another friend — and war poet — Patrick Shaw-Stewart, also played a prominent role in Brooke's funeral.

The inscription on the stone was written by a fellow war poet, Wilfred Owen.

His triumph in the six-year civil war is the subject of the poem " John Kantakouzenos Triumphs " by the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy.

* Philoctetes being retrieved by Neoptolemus is the subject of the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos ' long poem " Philoctetes " ( 1963 – 1965 ), a monologue in which the youth Neoptolemus convinces Philoctetes to follow him back to the war that will be won by the ruse of the Trojan Horse.

He conceived of setting the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead interwoven with nine poems about war by the English poet Wilfred Owen.

It was in a war the Parian colonists waged with the Saians, a Thracian tribe, that the poet Archilochus threw away his shield.

* Greek poet Nikos Kavvadias's poem Federico García Lorca, in Kavvadias ' Marabu collection, is dedicated to the memory of García Lorca and juxtaposes his death with war crimes in the village of Distomo, Greece, and in Kessariani in Athens, where the Nazis executed over two hundred people in each city.

He is now remembered as an accomplished poet owing to the more than five hundred extant poems he produced, most written during his twenty-four years spent as a prisoner of war.

Along with future collaborators like Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Adorno was profoundly disillusioned by the ease with which Germany's intellectual and spiritual leaders — among them Max Weber, Max Scheler, Ernst Simmel, as well as his friend Siegfried Kracauer — came out in support of the war.

However, in 1242, during the war of Emperor Frederick II against the Pope, the Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried III, ordered the city's destruction.

During this war, several writers served with various battalions of the regiment in France, including the poets Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones and Hedd Wyn.

Leading war poets included: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, John McCrae, Rupert Brooke, Isaac Rosenberg and David Jones.

Scholars have argued that had he lived, Grenfell might well have become disillusioned like his fellow war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.

Camp Siegfried was one of many such camps in the US in the 1930s, including Camp Hindenberg, in Grafton, Wisconsin, Camp Nordland, in Andover, New Jersey, and Deutschhorst Country Club, in Sellersville, Pa. Camp Siegfried was shut down by the US government when Germany declared war on the United States.

Siegfried Sassoon, recuperating there after an injury, was encouraged to go absent without leave in a protest against the war.

Reaction to the Menin Gate, the first and most important of the Imperial War Graves Commission's Memorials to the Missing, ranged from its condemnation by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, to praise by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

World War I gave rise to British war poets and writers such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Rupert Brooke who wrote ( often paradoxically ), of their expectations of war, and / or their experiences in the trench.

Siegfried Taubert, fled on 30 March as the U. S. 3rd Armored Division closed in on the Paderborn area in the final phases of the war.

Despite France's declaration of war on Germany at the beginning of the Second World War, there was no major combat at the Siegfried Line at the start of the campaign in the west.

At the start of the war, the opposing troops remained behind their own defence lines, allowing the Germans to attack Poland, and at the end of the war, the invading forces spent more time than necessary at the half-finished, now-gutted Siegfried Line, thus allowing military manoeuvres in the east.

* Der Weltkrieg war vor deiner Tuer-The little Siegfried line ( German: WMTS Wetterau-Main-Tauber-Stellung ) in the east of the Siegfried line

Other clandestine radio stations operated by the Political Warfare Executive and its foreruners during the war included Das wahre Deutschland ( G. 1 ), Sender der Europäischen Revolution ( G. 2 ), Gustav Siegfried Eins ( G. 3 ), Wehrmachtssender Nord ( G. 5 ) and the German Priest ( G. 7 ) station.

Among them were German and Austrian scholars Adolf Dirr, Robert Lach, Georg Schunemann, and Siegfried Nadel, who were able to record and study traditional songs from Georgian war prisoners during the first World War.

Other war poets heard on the CD include Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Robert Graves, David Jones and Lawrence Binyon.

He was a war poet of World War I, and was taken up by Siegfried Sassoon.

Throughout the novel there are echoes of several war poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen ( 1918 )

He was a cousin of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

It was presented to the Tate by the war poet Siegfried Sassoon in memory of his friend and fellow officer Julian Dadd, a great-nephew of the artist, and of his two brothers who gave their lives in the First World War.