9SKn Poetry Anthology

Below is the link to the class Poetry Anthology

Our Favourite poems

Another War Poem

This is an iconic photo taken by Joe Rosenthal on 23 Febraury 1945 of the American Flag being raised on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan.

The Poem is Prayer for a Fallen Soldier by Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an Irish Poet killed in July, 1918 in France.
Poem retrieved from www.poetryfoundation.org
Read brief details about the poet here.
Poet Alfred Kilmer

Anzac Day 2013

Flanders Field written in 1915

They shall grow not old,
As we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them,
Nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning
We will remember them. 

This extract from the poem The Fallen by The Ode came from 'For the Fallen', a poem by the English poet and writer Laurence Binyon and was published in London in The Winnowing Fan: Poems on the Great War in 1914. This verse is used in association with ANZAC commemoration services in Australia and New Zealand