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- Title
EXPLORING THE DISTINCTIVE MOOD CHANGE OF THE ENGLISH SOLDIER POETS DURING THE GREAT WAR.
- Authors
Abdo Rajhy, Hussein Ahmed; Sinha, Ashok Kumar
- Abstract
No conflict has ever been so closely linked and portrayed with the poetry and literature of its age than the First World War. The First World War or the Great War challenged existing conventions, morals, and ideals more than any war. Before the Great War, there was little or no anti-war art. The era of the First World War had seen a distinctive mood change among writers and poets. Inspired by first-hand experience of the trenches, poets such as Sassoon distinguished themselves from old Greek and Latin poets who had traditionally portrayed war in a lyrical, romantic way. The nature of war itself had changed dramatically and it was this gritty realism which Sassoon and Owen and their contemporaries embraced and which th would directly influence future literature and poetry of the 20 century and afterwards. The First World War generated a plethora of anti-war reactions in the visual arts as well as other arts such as literature and poetry. War poetry accommodates binary oppositions, most notably life and death.
- Subjects
LATIN poets; WORLD War I; GREEK poets; ANTI-war poetry; DISILLUSIONMENT
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 3, p38
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Article