James Kirkup

Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel about a young man's horrors in World War I, expresses much the same sentiment as Kirkup who writes, "eyes like ours that wake or...

Kirkup's 1966 poem "No Men are Foreign" focuses on the commonalities between all people. The poem's speaker states of foreigners: They, too, aware of sun and air and water,Are fed by peaceful...

The poem has nine stanzas and is written in free verse. It details a visit to Hiroshima as it moves forward after the devastation of the atomic bomb. The narrator firstly sees a town ‘like any...

The essence of Kirkup's poem is that in attacking others deemed foreign, we end up attacking our own and deny the basic element that makes us human. The challenge here is that there might be some...

The poem actually consists of just one stanza, comprising twenty lines. The first line of the poem—"Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign"—conveys its disarmingly simple message:...

Because James Kirkup was an English poet, his work is not grounded in Hinduism or Buddhism, but the point of view he is espousing here is somewhat close to Ahimsa, in that he is arguing that since...

Kirkup wishes to make the assertion that there is a transcendental life force that unifies us. Waging war is something that is fundamentally against this spirit. Examine the lines in the poem and...

This poem is about all men being brothers -- that all people are essentially the same. First stanza: All people are the same beneath their uniforms/clothes. All walk on the same kind of land and...

In James Kirkup's poem "No Men Are Foreign" he writes that "attacking other humans is attacking our brothers." So, while he does not specifically refer to anyone directly, his statement implies...

What a poem for the ages! Today, as American soldiers fight in a foreign land, the acceptance of this poem's message might stop that war and prevent other occurrences. After surviving World...

When I read this poem I'm reminded of John Donne's "Meditation XVII." The world is interconnected in more ways than it ever has been before. We can see and hear and do business across the world...

In reading the poem, I think that there is a definite stress to seek to eliminate the idea of boundaries that divide and set one individual or group of individuals against another. I would suggest...

The fundamental issue here is whether or not one accepts the collective identity that Kirkup is advocating in his poem. If one does buy it, then yes, there is an emotional component to all people....

I think that more detail would have to be given in terms of what exact guidelines are being sought to align answers. If it's the general principles of the poem, I would say that understanding the...