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WAR POETS - Coggle Diagram
WAR POETS
RUPERT BROOKE
1887 - 1915
caught initial enthusiasm for a war
wold be short and painless
expressed idealism - conflict
death - reward
glorified war - sentimental attitude
little experience- died 1915
THE SOLDIER (1914)
poem famous . patriotic and idealist view of war
heroic idea of sacrifice - homeland
strong bond between them
embodiment - england
death - battlefield - victory
homeland will live forever in a corner- foreign field
WILFRED OWEN
1893 -1918
suffering was justificable
sento to France
military action
many traumatic experiences - front
shocked - spent time war hospital
returned service 1918
kille bef Armistice was signed
DULCE ET DECORUM 1917
text
famous - realistic representation- hardship of war
trenches - image fellow soldier dying in front of him
language brutal
colloquial and direct
awake consceince of readers - horrors of war
describe atrocities - war experiences
final - he defines idea of the honor of sacrifice as a lie
outbreak - I ww
vast production of writing about war
until
literature been written by civilians
reflected upon war
new in the war poetry - was also written by soldier poets
experienced war - personally affected- horror go the conflict
WAR POETS AND GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI
Poets writing during 1ww
War Poets
themes and styles very different
Rupert Brooke
Patriotism
Wilfred Owen
emotion expressed - vast
Anger and Compassion
Giuseppe Ungaretti
suffering of war / sense brotherhood - soldiers
contrasts - direct and extremely realistic description
more brutal description of war
stile of