From Idealism to Realism: Contrastive Analysis of England Resistance Poem in two Modernism and Georgie's Schools

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1 Ph.D. Student of English Language and Literature, Shiraz University

2 Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid University

Abstract

The current paper investigates the resistance poem of England literature in two early and final period of World War I. The authors tend to answer the fundamental question: what stylistic and conceptual effects do the experiences of World War I have on England resistance poem? Thus, we investigate the poems "soldier" by Rupert Brooke and "it's sweet and honorable" by Wilfred Owen as the outstanding examples of early and final years' poems of World War I by stylistic approach. As "soldier" has idealistic and patriotic themes and "it's sweet and honorable" violates these themes by its real and deconstruction approach, the poems will be read in the context of modernism and Georgie's schools. Finally "soldier" is an imperial poem and "it's sweet and honorable" is an anti-imperialist poem. The change of resistance from defending homeland to opposition to avarice of great powers is interpreted as the reason of content contrasting of the poems

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Journal Of Sacred Defense Literature
Volume 1, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
September 2017
Pages 43-54

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