WWI poetry

I decided to read "Dead Cow Farm" by Robert Graves. I picked this poem in particular because I thought it was just a very interesting and unusual name for a poem. In the poem it describes a cow as the creator of Adam and Eve. I thought this was particularly interesting because that is not how I have always pictured the creation of Adam and Eve. At the end it says "the old cow's dead." I think when he says this he means that the off spring of the cow's creation are all dead like many of the men who died in WWI.

Resources used for Great White Fleet postcards

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq42-3.htm
http://www.greatwhitefleet.info/Milton_Willard.html
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1907-07-28/ed-1/seq-5/;words=fleet+white+great?date1=1907&rows=20&searchType=basic&state=California&date2=1909&proxtext=Great+White+Fleet&y=21&x=22&dateFilterType=yearRange&index=0

Great White Fleet

I've been doing my research here. I have learned that the fleet traveled 12,455 miles in 14 months across the world. There were 16 giant battle ships all painted white (that's why its called the "Great White Fleet") that set sail from Hampton Roads, VA. The fleet made 20 stops around the world before ending back up at the very same port they left from.