Characteristics of War Poetry
* The war poetry is introduced by the poets who have experienced the terror of War World I and
World War World II. War poetry is considered as contemporary poetry which is authentic,
original,revolutionary and free from the classical rules.
*Lesley Jeffries maintains that modern poets were trying with "new material" and "new methods of
writing" (Jeffries 1993:10).
*Dennis Brown attributes the subject of experimentation in modern poetry to the "disorientation"
induce by the shock of the Great War, among other reasons (Brown 1989:11).
*Most of the common themes, like the casualties of war and the inevitable deaths, can be found in the
most well-known poets like Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon.
*Many of them suffered from psychological problems during and after the war due to shell shock or
the horrible scenes of mutilated bodies and human parts scattered on the battlefield.
*War poetry captures the physical and emotional features of modern war: the pain, weariness,
madness, and degradation of human beings under intolerable strain.
* It attempts to crystallize the moment as it offers images of young soldiers in action.
*Some poems of this era highlight the case in which a soldier survives war physically but remains
obsessed with its bitter horrifying memories which drive him crazy.
* Samuel Hynes expresses the way the poets were affected by the war.
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