WAR POETRY

War Poetry

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War Poetry

Introduction

War is a period of conflict or fighting between two states. A war is not just a period of bloodshed and quarrel, but it has a deep impact on people's emotions. Since war has been a part of the history of humankind, people from time to time have tried capturing the essence of war into movies, paintings, books, poetry as well as music so that they could express their emotions on war. In this paper, we are going to talk about war poetry with particular emphasis on the First World War.

War poetry is an attempt by the poet to captivate the metamorphosis that a common man goes through from being a lover of peace and tranquility to becoming a proponent of destruction and butchery—that is war. Not only this, but war poetry identifies the futile outlook that stresses a man to kill another man.

On the other hand, war poetry can be motivational as well. Many poets have tried to write war poetry in a manner so as to give a positive impetus to men to go on war for the sake of patriotism. Therefore, war poetry depicts not only optimism about the war in the form of motivation, but also in the form of realism whereby a poet tries to capture the true essence of war in the real sense and describes the brutal process of war as it happens.

The very term war poet came into being throughout and after the 1st World War. This was the time period when many poets emerged with their war poetry in English language. Many of these poets had been soldiers in the war and had gone through the experience of war. This was the reason why they could clearly translate their emotions into poetic verses. Some of the poets even lost their lives later on during war. These names include Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke.

An insight into wartime poetry

War poetry' is commonly read, discussed and taught as a very specific genre. The term is used to refer almost exclusively to poetry from the First World War (1914- 18), and within that to a very limited group of poets, among whom Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are the most prominent. But poetry about war has been in existence for a very long time. Homer's Iliad has strong claims to be called a war poem, and literature ...