Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ556660
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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The Power of Brevity in War Poetry.
Bartel, Roland; Grandberry, Diana
English Journal, v86 n5 p72-75 Sep 1997
Argues that the poetry of war is often compressed and powerful and that students of writing and literature can learn from these poets that restraint creates resonance. Discusses war poems with emphatic conclusions; war poems that are short and direct; and teaching the dynamics of brevity through a variety of activities using war poems and war quotations. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Literature Appreciation, Poetry, Secondary Education, War, Writing Improvement
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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