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WAR POETS - Coggle Diagram
WAR POETS
First World War
patriotism
young volunteers
initial enthusiasm
Battle of the Somme (1916)
trenches: mud, gas, rats, dead bodies
Characteristics
psychological trauma
soldiers’ suffering
rejection of heroic
war ideals
horror of war
WAR POETS
• soldier-poets who volunteered
• direct experience of war
• realistic and modern poetry
• denunciation of war horrors
WILFRED OWEN
War Experience
shell shock
Craiglockhart Hospital
fought on the Somme
met Siegfried Sassoon
Death
4 November 1918
one week before the armistice
Life
enlisted in 1915
teacher in France
born in 1893
“DULCE ET DECORUM EST”
Main theme
physical suffering
psychological trauma
horror of war
Central episode
soldier without mask
terrible death
gas attack
Final message
criticism of propaganda
The old Lie”
Dulce et decorum est
pro patria mori”
= “It is sweet and fitting
to die for one’s country”
→ defined by Owen
as a LIE
war is NOT glorious