Ebook {Epub PDF} The Black Riders and Other Lines / War Is Kind by Stephen Crane

The black riders, and other lines [Crane, Stephen] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The black riders, and other lines/5(29). The Black Riders and Other Lines Hardcover – January 1, by Stephen Crane (Author) › Visit Amazon Both this volume and War is Kind are highly recommended. The only thing that kept this book from a 5-star review is the formatting that runs one poem into the next, separated only by the title. /5(29). War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom — A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.

Crane delights in calling out hypocrisy and exposing it to the light of day. Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce and H.L. Menken were the "paragons of pessimism" during their days. To that group add the voice of Stephen Crane who was their equal in expressing the cynicism of the age; but Crane's cynicism often came wrapped around a seed of hope for mankind. Wounds in the Rain: War Stories: is a collection of short stories that focuses on Crane's Cuban war experiences. Poetry. The Black Riders and Other Lines is a collection of poems that follow a free verse form and address various content issues, including separation and customs. War Is Kind includes poems with a form and content. Stephen Crane (November 1, - June 5, ) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. The Black Riders and Other Lines and War is Kind, was unconventional for the time in that it was written in free verse without rhyme, meter, or even titles for individual works.

Bookman 1 (May ), p. Mr. Stephen Crane is the Aubrey Beardsley of poetry. When one first takes up his little book of verse and notes the quite too Beardsleyesque splash of black upon its staring white boards, and then on opening it discovers that the “lines” are printed wholly in capitals, and that they are unrhymed and destitute. Crane is not considered a major poet, but did publish a few volumes including The Black Riders and War is Kind and Other Lines. His Collected Poems also include “Three Poems,” discovered in in Jacksonville, Florida. Crane, who once commented that all life is war, covered many wars as a journalist, reporting on the Spanish-American war, the Greco-Turkish war, and the Cuban insurrection, primarily for the Hearst and Bachellor news syndicates. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom — A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind. Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches.