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- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.25
First I must admit I didn't read all the poems. I found this book in a secondhand store with a note from someone written in 1961, given as a gift, and I thought it'd be nice to see what poems were considered famous a hundred years ago. As expected, maybe 90% of the poems are by men, and call me a man hating lesbian if you want but I just don't think men have anything interesting or note worthy to say. If the poem wasn't about war, it was about the sea, or death, or the love of their country. Not even the nature of the country, like love of fellow countrymen and patriotism. These things don't appeal to me but I don't like to DNF books so I stuck it through, skipping ones that were too long or I got the gidst of it by skimming. I recgonized a few of the poems, maybe 5 to 10 total, so that was interesting.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief, Death, and War
Minor: Racial slurs
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