Poem contexts/themes Flashcards

(5 cards)

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What are the first poems responses to?

A

the outbreak of war, romantic responses of young men in the war, showing their heroism without knowing the realities of war

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What is the “transitional figure” section of the poems?

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a bridge between the naivete of the earlier WW1 poets and the later war experience, deaths start to become a reality

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What is the third section of poems about?

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the political and different moral positions on war, the poems ‘fight’/’argue’ with one another

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What does the cluster of poems written by soldiers show us?

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they define our understanding of conflict, they bring a personal perspective to the war, highlighting the true realities they had to go through

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What is the last section of poems about?

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looking back on the war, reflecting on the losses but also the gains and lessons learnt

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