THE WAR POETS

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THE WAR POETS

The first world war was welcome with enthusiasm. A lot of young men volunteered for military service in the early months of war, and they were the first to apprehend the horror and suffering of war. Young poets, in this period, dealt with horrors of modern warefore in choise of violent 414d35e , everyday language.

There are two kinds of war poets the first make an exaltation of the war as we can see in Rupert Brooke the second felt the no sense of war as we can see in Wilfred Owen.

R. BROOKE

Born into a well-to-do academic family

Brooke's poetry would have changed in tone and imaginary

Brooke is remembered as a war poets, who inspired patriotism in the early months of the great war

He assumed a symbolic role that turned into the myth of a young and beautiful fallen. - He didn't get in touch with the horrors of the war because he wasn't a simple soldier

Brooke died in 1915 at the age of 28 because he contracted blood-poisoning

the soldiers __________ ______ ____ __________ ______ ____ _____

The speaker is the poet he is speaking to foreign, the England is view as glory its quality are the power and superiority. The poem is nostalgic, sentimental and patriotic, he is not afraid of death, the grove will be in England, he will enrich the foreign soil with his dust of English origin, he will be buried in England earth. There is an emphasis on war, he exalt English race. The death suggest me: glory, immortality and peace. In this poem the principal theme is the exaltation of the homeland, think always his country and wants to die there.

S. SASOON

- First poet that portrayed the truth about war

- Born in an upper-class family

He carried out his protest against "the political errors and insincerities for which the soldiers are being sacrificed

He was extremely spontaneous

His description are cruel and realistic

He used devices like satire,documentary.

W. OWEN

In Wilferd Owen'works positive emotion of love, admiration are present as well

In a war hospital he produced his most brillant poems.

He had a negative vision of war

He used many assonance and alliteration this give moral force which people must suffer and die.

He used phara-rhymes

his sonnet DULCE ET DECORUM EST based on the poet's experience of horrors of war.

I. ROSEMBERG

- He was very poor

- modern poems

- He used a simple language (spiritual and elementary)