Studia Polensia, Vol. 9 No. 1, 2020.
Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32728/studpol/2020.09.01.04
Angelo Giunta
Abstract
The image of a United Kingdom as an Eden unaware of the tragedy
that is about to tear it apart is widespread but rather false. The apparent
serenity hides a latent violence and a huge inner problems and the war,
therefore, only accelerates a process already underway.
Of all the English literature of the twentieth century, war poetry
seems, from many points of view, a “parenthesis” within the literary
panorama. War poetry is the product of a specific historical, social and
cultural period that came to form in the First World War. Rupert Brooke,
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are probably some of the best poets
of the Great War. Many war poets are young commissioned officers with
a good education and high social position. The fact that many poets are
commissioned officers - but not high officers - allows them to have a
certain overview of the war and to be in contact on a socio-cultural level
with the high ranks of the army and, physically, with privates. In this way
they manage to have a wider vision of reality in the trenches.
Keywords
war poets; Grande Guerra; Rupert Brooke; Wilfred Owen; Siegfrid Sassoon
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Publication date:
24.11.2020.
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