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WAR POETS - Coggle Diagram
WAR POETS
RUPERT BROOKE
1887-1915
typical english gentleman
movement of the
GEORGIAN POETS
return to nature
simple emotions against decadenthism and aestethicism
he wrote war
sonnets
show the heroic side of war
most famous:
THE SOLDIER
sonnet
full of patriotism and old heroic ideals
identification of the soldier with the motherland
death as victorian ideal: quiet dreams and peace
he died for the infection in Gallipoli (Turkey)
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
1886-1967
he came from a rich jewish family
he denounced the war's horrors he saw as soldier
wounded in battle, he became invalid
sonnets
he showed hatred of war
use irony to shock the reader
he made attacks against government-church-command using direct speeches
WILFRED OWEN
1893-1918
hospitalized in 1915, then back to battle
killed 1 week before the armistice
poems
use of assonance and alliterations
vision of horror and apocalypse desolation
use of half-rhymes
son of a railway worker