THE WAR POET
Historical events
many wars happened
including the Boer war between the Dutch (they were helped by the germans) and the British
This suggests that there's an idea of nationalism: The importance given to one’s society and culture over another’s.
Expansionism, they wanted to expand themselves using colonies
WORLD WAR
lead to an idea of spleen, dissatisfaction, decay,boredom and alienation
Fall of ideals: Darwin’s, Liewelin, religious and scientific ideals. Nothing satisfied people.
Men looked at their interiority
only reality that satisfied them
Alienation
solitude of man, lack of communication, paralysis
Cultural events
Freud and Jung’s studies, they studied and analysed the most mysterious and inner part of man
Link to Art
GEORGES BRAQUE
Violin and sheet music: “Petit Oiseau”
PICASSO
Demoiselles → Cubismo
PICASSO
Dora Maar
Form
Content
There is subjectivity and individualism
In art you express your individual and subjective reality/vision of the world.
Content of art: personal vision
Different points of view together. You need to give a whole vision of reality
4th dimension
time - not a realistic and objective reality. but instead it's what the artist has inside himself.
Time is subjective, not chronological. This will be seen in James Joyce as well as in Svevo.
Rupert Brooke
Wilfred Owen
In favour of the war, he was an upper class man, he didn't fight. So he didn't see the slaughter of the young men. He was an officer in the navy so he didn't see the battlefield, he died in transit to it due to an infection.
The Soldier
He died in 1918, he was against the war. He was in the infantry (fanteria) he was NOT in the upper classes.
Was in the trenches, he understood the horror of that situation. Was very patriotic.
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Owens understood the horror of war because he was part of it and lived in the trenches whilst he was fighting. He was also very patriotic. His poem shows the readers all of the horrors that he experienced in the trenches, like getting gassed and watching his friend die.
In this poem, we can tell that whilst Brooke never fought in the war, he is in favour of it. This is shown because he never directly talks about the war or the battlefield, he just talks about how great England is.