Georgian Poets and the Impact of World War I: A Focus on Wilfred Owen, Apuntes de Filología Inglesa

¡Descarga Georgian Poets and the Impact of World War I: A Focus on Wilfred Owen y más Apuntes en PDF de Filología Inglesa solo en Docsity! WAR POETS Effect 1st World War was present in British mind GEORGIAN POETRY Very popular 1910´s Reacted against Victorian stateliness in manner and substance. Homely topics dettracted them. The effort to achieve emotional directness in easily assimilated verses. Negative criticism: lifeless, lack of intelectual depth, banality, etc. Lifeless in way in which they portray life, criticize for trivial poetry (banality). Poetry after Secondd World War connects in tradition with Georgian poetry. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Isaac Rosenberg The Soldier Idealization of the country. When we die we return to clay. Richer dust. England bore this man. Mother Land. Breathing English air. We can see the elements of nature, the 4 elements that provide life (sun, wáter, earth…). Shed away: purify. This earth may remain England, Patriotic. Death is a possibility in his life. Thinking about the possibility of dying as a soldier. In this war we have terrible depictions of this battlefield making their society question on the purpose of the war. Wilfred Owen Traumatic images of war, obssesive. Powerful depiction of the tragedy at the war front and trenches. Alliteration, onmatopoeic, assonance, half-rhyme and pararhyme. Effects of dissonance, cacophonic sounnds which reinforce the theme. His poetry full of religious images. Many English people Christian believes refused the war and did not catch a weapon. There were propaganda against joining the army for WWI Wilfred Owen analyze from point of view of Trauma studies, traumatic experience of the war poetry, images coming to his mind permanently. Dulce Et Decorum Est : EXAM ¡!!!!!! EXPLAINED TIS POEM IN MOODLE, EXAM QUE CAE ESTE POEMA DE CABEZA, EMPOLLARSELO BIEN. Image, description of the battlefield. He concentrates on one soldier dying, he is an example for the rest of the soldiers, a soldier who was dying and this image recurrent to his mind, this image has become an icon for the rest. Rhythm Iambic pentameter. Moched: tired. Continue walking with blood around. They could not walk properly, drunk, blind 2nd stanza: they stop top ut their helmets against the gas someboy could not putt he helmet, seeing through the glasses of the helmet (the poet). Green sea: idea of toxic, breathless. 3rd stanza: image of trauma recurrent once and again, Trauma experience image. 4rd stanza: if. You : the reader if you could be there and watch. If: twice, two conditionals. Pro patria: If you have been there you will not encourage youngsters to go to the war. The old lie: making reference to the propaganda used to encourage young people to joint the war. Futility Cacophonic avoiding a nice musicality, creates cacophonic sounds. Put this corp in the sun because the touch of the sun will awake him in England. Maybe some curative effects and rebirth in the sun. We asume that he is death “until this morning”. The suni s a life giver, center of the universo. Those surrounding death body we do not know if the sun can performed a miracle. Seeds: vegetation. Woke once: reference to the génesis myth creation of human being. Poem conclusión with 3 questions. Is it to difficult to bring him back to life? The act of creating a human being was for this? Is it neccessary? How the earth can be without civilization. Last line: the war destroy the evolution of nature: “To break earth´s sleep at all? Shorter lines: more direct, to have the idea more concentrate. POEM SPANISH CIVIL WAR “Un país dónde lucía el sol”