Wartime Christmas
"Wartime Christmas" by Joyce Kilmer finds Christmas meaning not in celebration but in quiet, defiant hope during wartime. The poem opens with kings and shepherds kneeling before the Christ child, then shifts to a war-darkened world where Peace has turned away in tears. Against that bleak backdrop, Kilmer holds up one enduring image — babies asleep on their mothers' knees — as proof that Christmas cannot be extinguished, even when the earth grows weary and the sun struggles through war-clouds.
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