WAR POETS:
the structure of the poem isn't particular but the topic is new. There are some poet
against and other in favour. The most important thing in this poems is thatbdifferents
poets take part in the war and their aprocie to the war. Inizially they thought that war
was a positive thing.
Characteristics that influence poets:
•patriotism,
•thouth that die in a war is honerable,
•they know the right atmosphere and thay can recreate it
that was a new type of war: there were new weapons (you can't see the enemies-->
GAS and you died because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, you can't
defeend yourself) and many nations took part in it.
In poems autors describe their sense of meaningless and uncertanty, their life was
nothing.
They were conditioned also by the death of the queen Victoria (1901), the change of
century and the new teory of Freud about the unconcious: there is something in our
mind that we can't know.
=D novel changes:
•there is no more the third person omniscient narrator, sobstitute by point of
view (because the reality is frammented).
•There isn't a cronological sequence.
•The time of mind is given in the novel (sono trascritti i pensieri sei personaggi)
•stream of consciousness --> free assosiations of ideas (also in poems)
•the main idea is to be in the mind of the protagnists
•there isn't a story
August 1914-Isaac Rosenberg
What in our lives is burnt
In the fire of this?
The heart’s dear granary?
The much we shall miss?
August 1914 is the first monthof the war an R. Is already giving negative images of the ar
WE: The poet is involving the reader, the poet is involvering, 3 questions that might have an
answer. Fire:of the guns of the explosion, this questions might have an answer. He is already
negative from the begining. "The heart's dear granary?" --> Metaphore: In the granary you keep
food for the winter, it is precious, it's a precius place, like the heart, the place of our feeling and
