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The War Poets (Rubert Brooke ( 1887/1915) (war: (death (reward), clean and…
The War Poets
Rubert Brooke ( 1887/1915)
wealthy family
poet
1 year of war
literary circle
poet= 'young romantic hero'
patriotism
war:
clean and cleansing
body suffering NO
death
reward
-sentimental attitude -traditional forms
1915= blood poisoning
Wilfred Owen (1893/1918)
teacher of English
France
1915 war
1917 hospital Edinbrugh
Siegfried Sassoon
patient and poet
supported him
poems topics
accurate accounts
gas casualities
destroyes bodies
suffering +death
style
alliteration
assonance
'disable and other poems' 1918
preface
interpretation of war poetry
poet= truthful
pity
no consolatory elegies
aim: warn
the First World War broke out
thousands of young men
military service
pride and exhilaration
1916 the Battle of the Somme
doubt and disillusionment
life in the trenches
hell
rain and mud
decaying bodies that rats fed on
poison gas
the War Poets
represent modern warfare
realistic
unconventional way