AD (poem)
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AD (poem)
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AD is a poem by the American poet Kenneth Fearing, written in 1938 and published in 1956 in New and Collected Poems by the Indiana University Press. It is written in the form of a job advertisement. In it, Fearing satirizes the autonomy of killing in the European theatre of World War II. He uses verbal irony to mock how “casually and mindlessly people are prepared to accept the horrors of war”.
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2022-09-13T10:40:54Z
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