Analyse the ways in which the work of two contemporary British poets respond to and examine historical characters and events that took place in the first half of the twentieth century.

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English

 

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Lisa N

 

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July 27, 2013

 

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"A German Requiem" is an elegy for both the victims and survivors of the Second World War and is based on Fenton's observations on a trip he took to Berlin and Urbino. The poem is an oblique narrative describing a visit to a German cemetery aboard "the widow's shuttle", a special bus to attend a memorial service for the war dead and recalls the painful mediations this excursion brings forth...
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The poem progresses through a series of nine fragmentary sections and throughout the narrator seems to stand at a distance from the devastation he evokes. The narrator never speaks in the first person but describes the participants as "you", "they", "he" and "she". Throughout the poem the narrator deliberately chooses to not to say certain things, and a recurring theme throughout "A German Requiem" is that of the narrator reminding the readers how much he chooses not to disclose, just as the poems characters deliberately chose not to speak about certain parts of their wartime experience...
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