Everything you need to understand or teach The Conquerors by Phyllis McGinley.
Phyllis McGinley's poem "The Conquerors," which was published in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Times Three in 1960, deals with a topic that she did not often write about. Known in her time as a suburban housewife poet and a writer of light verse, McGinley most often wrote about domestic topics, things that happened in the home, in the suburbs, things that happened, as she was to say, outside her window. The topic of "The...