War Poetry

1. War Poetry
Ramiro Aizpiri, Gonzalo Irazusta, Marcos Okecki,
Bautista Buljevich and Francisco Aresi

2. What is war poetry
War poetry is usually known as poetry made during the First World War by poets
such as Edward Thomas, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke,
Edmund Blunden and Robert Graves and more. This war poetry talks about
themes connected to war, like honor,injury and how war could affect. A lot of the
poets tried to show how destructive and shocking the war could be, so they could
be called as anti-war poets.The poets complained and showed their ideas in this
poems.

3. Name some war poets and famous poems
● Wilfred Owen: He was a poet and a British soldier
● Siegfried Loraine Sassoon: He was a British poet and used to be a British Army
officer during the WW1
● Robert Laurence Binyon: He was an English poet
● Charles Hamilton Sorley: He was a British poet of the First World War
● John McCrae Alexander: He was a Canadian poet, doctor, author, artist and
soldier during the First World War
● Isaac Rosenberg: He was an English poet and artist. His poems from the trenches
are recognized as some of the most outstanding poems written during the First
World War

4. ● How are soldiers typically portrayed? Is there a common theme which unites the
various countries?
● The soldiers in war poetry are typically portrayed as heroic and
brave to go to war to defend their country, Also, the fear of not
seeing their families again is something every soldier has. In most
of the poems, the theme of death and fear apart of soldiers being
loyal and brave for their flag, is commonly present in war poetry

5. What are the roles which children played in wartime
propaganda” Why were children “essential victims” in the
war?
children were essential victims of the wartime propaganda
in the first world war as the authorities realized children
were going to be their future, their future supporters and
their future soldiers. to be assured they were going to
have faithful supporters and powerful soldiers they used
schol, books, plays and rallies.

6. What was the role played by women in war times?
Woman used to be housewifes. All their lives were based on their
marriages and their sons educación. When they were little they
depended on how their wedding was going to be. However things
started to change in the first world war. Men were fighting and
industries needed workers, so lots of women started working
leaving behind their dreams of taking care of their families as
housewifes and stared apporting with money. This gave hope to
lots of women now they could work as men could however they
were still judged and oppressed.

7. ● What is the typical message/imagery in war poems?
● The typical message in war poems is the courage and
heroism the soldiers represented to their countries as they
go to war to defend their families and save their own
nation. Moreover, poems started sharing the real view of
the war for example the death of partners causing the
soldiers psychological damage by the year of 1915.

8. What are Sassoon‘s views of the war, of the soldier, and
of death created in his poems?
● Sassoon created a specific View in his poems, Such as he did un "The
Redeemer" and "Suicide in the Trenches"
● His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the
patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a
war where several people die and suffered a lot.
● He, through his poems, expressed the horror that a war brought, and the
suffering that people had to lead with as well as the lost of froends, family,
among others.

9. Wilfred Owen
There is no doubt that Wilfred Owen was one of the greatest poets. He was a
soldier, and it is said that unfortunately he was killed in action. He showed
how destructive and terrifying the war was. This also represented what people
wanted, because everyone hated the war. Owen showed a great perspective
from inside the war, and showed his point of view and what he lived inside
that horrible territory.

10. Overall, what value does poetry have for the historian of war? Can poetry be used to examine the nature of the war experience, and if
so, how? Are there other sources which are “better” for the study of war, and if so what/why?
Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language
chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present, possibly—under some definitions—the primal
and primary form of languages themselves. The present article means only to describe in as general a way as possible certain
properties of poetry and of poetic thought regarded as in some sense independent modes of the mind. Naturally, not every tradition nor
every local or individual variation can be—or need be—included, but the article illustrates by examples of poetry ranging between
nursery rhyme and epic. This article considers the difficulty or impossibility of defining poetry; man’s nevertheless familiar acquaintance
with it; the differences between poetry and prose; the idea of form in poetry; poetry as a mode of thought; and what little may be said in
prose of the spirit of poetry.
When we say “war poetry” today, the sort of writing that comes to mind is a conglomeration of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and
the other great writers of the first world war. It means descriptions of mud, wire and slaughter on a horrific scale. It includes accusations
that the top brass prolonged hostilities for no good reason and that people at home supported the cause in ignorance. It involves fierce
protest as well as intense sympathy. It issues a warning.
The best sources to study history are the Ines that are primery source because thay are a document for the period of history a historían
or person si studing.

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