Seeger | Alan

: Expresses frustration with American neutrality.

: Honors Americans fighting for France before the U.S. entered WWI. alan seeger

Full collections are available in the public domain via the Poetry Foundation and Project Gutenberg . A Message to America, by Alan Seeger - English Verse : Expresses frustration with American neutrality

: Highlights the contrast between the French countryside and front-line intensity. an American war poet

The most requested text by , an American war poet, is his famous 1916 poem, " I Have a Rendezvous with Death ." Seeger wrote it shortly before he was killed in action during the Battle of the Somme . I Have a Rendezvous with Death