Arms and the Boy The title alludes to the opening words of Virgil's Latin epic poem the "Aeneid": "Arma virumque cano" ("Of arms and the man I sing"). The poem is written in heroic couplets, in which successive pairs of lines have related ending sounds. In this instance, the final words do not rhyme; for example, "blade" and "blood" in the quotation. This is a scheme called half rhyme. Text of the Poem at Poetry Foundation Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I;
The Blue Boy (picture book) he's learned". The original was also translated into Japanese. An American English translation was published 1992 by Macmillan. Martin Auer first wrote the story for the German television series "Siebenstein" (ZDF). It was then published in book form by Beltz & Gelberg. The story is also part of the collection "The Strange War" by Martin Auer that has been translated in more than 25 languages. The Blue Boy (picture book) The Blue Boy is a children's picture book by Martin Auer, with illustrations by Simone Klages. It was first published in 1991 in German as "Der blaue Junge". The Blue