2. Table of Content
What is a war poetry ?
What is a romantic poetry ?
Theme of both poetry
How different both the poetry
3. Prepared by :-Nidhi Jethava
Batch :- 20-22 MKBU Department of English
Paper :- 110, History of 20th Cen Literature: 1900 to 2000
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4. What is war poetry ?
War poetry is a literary genre originated
during war time when hundreds of soldiers,
and also civilians caught up in conflict, started
to write poetry as a way of striving to express
extreme emotion at the very edge of
experience.
5. What is Romantic Poetry
Romantic poetry is the poetry of
the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical
and intellectual movement that originated in
Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It
involved a reaction against prevailing
Enlightenment ideas of the 18th century, and
lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.
6. Theme of war poetry
Realism
Description of war
Description of horrible situation
Real life situation
Anti-war
Dignity
Honor
Roll of government and politician.
7. Theme of Romantic poetry
Glorification of Nature
Awareness and Acceptance of Emotions
Celebration of Artistic Creativity and Imagination
Emphasis on Aesthetic Beauty
Themes of Solitude
Focus on Exoticism and History
Spiritual and Supernatural Elements
Vivid Sensory Descriptions
Use of Personification
Focus on the Self and Autobiography
8. Some Famous poets
War Poetry
Edmund Blunden
Rupert Brooke
Robert Graves
Ivor Gurney
David Jones
Francis Ledwidge
Wilfred Owen
Romantic poetry
William Wordsworth
S.T.Cledridge
John Keats
P.B.Shelley
Lord Byron
Robert Burns
William Blake
9. Some of the examples of poems
War poems
The Hero- by Siegfried Sassoon
Dulce et Decorum Est- by Wilfred
Owen
The Soldier- by Rupert Brook
The Fear-by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
The Target- by Ivor Gurney
Romantic poems
1. William Wordsworth, 'My heart leaps
up'. ...
2. William Wordsworth, 'I wandered
lonely as a cloud'. ...
3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Frost at
Midnight'. ...
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner. ...
5. Charlotte Smith, 'Sonnet on being
Cautioned against Walking on a
Headland’
10. The English Romantic Poets
Imagination, Nature, the Self, and
Eternity are among the elements that
the period named “Romantic”.
Indeed imagination and insight are in
fact inseparable and form for all
practical purposes a single faculty.
“For Coleridge imagination is the
primary instrument of all spiritual and
creative activities.”
11. War poets
The vivid experience of fighting in the First World
War led many men and women to poetry.
A war poet is a poet who participates in
a war and writes about their
experiences, or a non-combatant who
writes poems about war. While the term
is applied especially to those who
served during the First World War.
the term can be applied to a poet of any
nationality writing about any war,
including Homer's Iliad, from around the
8th century BC as well as poetry of
the American Civil War, the Spanish
Civil War, the Crimean War and other
wars.
12. Difference between War and Romantic
poem
War Poems
Describe reality of life
War situation
Vivid aspects of society and
civilization.
Politics and Governments
Horrible situation
Romantic poems
Focus on nature
Motto “ Return to Nature”
Rural Theme
Fancy and Imagination
Vivid aspects of nature
13. Citation
Abrams, M.H. English Romantic PoetsOxford University Press.
Bowra, C.M. (1969) The Romantic Imagination Oxford University Press
Coleridge Poetry & Prose, Oxford at the Clarendor Press, (1960) Great Britain
English Poetry (1976) Sussex Publications Ltd. Great Britain
Jorge, Alcazar . (1990) El Romanticismo y El Realismo en Inglaterra Suaf.
Katharine Tynan, “New Books: War Poets and Others,” The Bookman, vol. 51, Oct
1916, p. 22.
14. Continue
Motion, Andrew. "There is more to war poetry than mud, wire and slaughter." The
Guardian (2017).
Poetry and War: An Introductory Reader, by Simon Featherstone (Routledge, 1994)
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature Volume II, Oxford University Press
The Oxford Book of War Poetry, edited by Jon Stallworthy (Oxford University Press,
1988)
Ruzich, Connie. "War poets." (2020).
Wadsworth Cengage Learning. Abrams, M. H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary
of Literary Terms. ... Boston, Mass.: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012.