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POETRY FIRST HALF OF 20th CENTURY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Poems of the past and the present 1901 includes war poems inspired by South African War and philosophical poems;
        
        Time's Laughingstocks 1809;
        
        3 volumes of THe Dynasts a verse epic drama of the War with Napoleon;
        
        Poems 1912-13, included in Satires of CIrcumstance 1914;
        
        Moments of VIsion 1917;
        
        *Late Lyrics and earlier 1922;
        
        Human shows 1925;
        
        Winter Words 1928;
  - - - Departmental Ditties 1886;
        
        Imperialistic poems:
        
        Recessional - 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign;
        
        The white man's burden imperialism + eurocentric view of the world;
        
        Barrack-Room Ballads 1890 first important collection of poetry related to British Imperialism;
        
        2 collections of successful stories and poems:
        
        Puck of Pook's Hill 1906;
        
        Rewards and Fairies 1910;
      - Kipling considered non-european cultures as childlike. In his opinion, white people had a civilizing mission and had the moral duty to rule over non-Europeans, so as to teach them Western ways
- - - - reaction against VIctorian wordiness, aestheticism and contemporary urban realism;
        
        use of short lyrical poems pervaded with a melancholic touch;
        
        refusal of poetic diction inf avour of simple language;
        -dreamy and escapist poetry in comparison with the harshness of war;
        
        emphasis on emtional response;
        
        some favourite themes such as Love and the beauty of the countryside as opposed to industrial civilization
  - - - patriotic vision of war
      - rejected war and showed its horrors
    - - 1st stage: society approved war; heroic, moral, religious and patriotic aims of poetry
        
        2nd stage: society reacted against war and its false propaganda poets portrayed anti-heroes who question pre-war beliefs depicted the terrible living conditions in the trenches
        
        SIEGFRIED SASSOON
        
        1914 enlisted in the British army and was wounded twice while serving in France. Back in England he protested publicly against war. His protests were initially attributed to hi SHELL-SHOCK (= psychological disturbance caused to prolonged exposure to war). He was sent to a sanatorium where he met Wilfried Owen, whose poems he published after he was killed at the front.
        
        remembered for his antiwar poetry. Most famous poems Blighters, They, Does it matter?, Glory of Women, Counter-attack, Suicide in the threnches
        
        details of trench warfare and the battlefield;
        
        shocking imagery;
        
        questions idealistic image of combat as a glorious and noble undertaking;
        
        physical and mental suffering of the soldiers;
        
        attacks government, church and high command;
        
        combines realism with satire;
        
        colloquial language + slang and oaths
        
        ISAAC ROSENBERG
        
        trench poems
        
        harsh criticism of the war
        
        WILFRED OWEN (DIED 1918)
        
        Enlisted in the army. Battle of the Somme was injured and hospitalised. LAter sent to a sanatorium in Edinburgh for treatment of shell shock. There he met Sassoon. He returned to the front in 1918 where he died just before the Armistice. In that year he began assembling his poems
        
        the subjct of his poetry is not the glorification of the war but the realism, main theme = Pity. He wants to be truthful about the horrible events in order to avoid future conflicts
        
        use of PARARHYME, rhyme is made through altered vowel sounds.
        
        Most famous poems Futility, Strange Meeting,DULCE ET DECORUM EST where he describes the cruel death from gas, he also invites the reader to see for himself the reality of fighting and attacks the patriotism of those people who have never experienced combat at first hand
        
        RUPERT BROOKE
        
        in 1911 he published Poems and was hailed as a poetic talent. Outbreak of WWI became officer in Royal Navy but in 1915 died of blood poisoning aboard ship.
        
        remembered for his war sonnets, although he never experienced war at first hand. In THE SOLDIER best known sonnet, he encourages fighting as a defence of the English national soil against evil, so that it will remain a country of happiness. THE DEAD he associates death in defence of England with glory, holiness and honour.