Different Responses to War of Four WW1 Poets.

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Ted C

 

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February 20, 2015

 

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The national mood of that hour was unquestionably captured in these five sonnets, which obviously were written by a civilian in uniform. The most famous of these, "The Soldier", shows what D.J. Enright called the "simple-minded romanticism" of Brooke (163), and Charles Sorley called his "obsession with his own sacrifice,"(263) but one thing is clear to anyone who reads it: Brooke had never been in the trenches...
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This is a poem filled with patriotism, the idea of dying for your country is glorified; he obviously sentimentalizes war: If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; (1-4) Did he really believe that the earth where the dead soldier lies would become "England", and that his dust is "richer" than the surrounding country? Whatever we have to say about it, the English people at the time loved it: the dean of Saint Pauls quoted it, remarking that "the enthusiasm of a pure and elevated patriotism never had found a nobler expression"; priests would read it out loud during their sermon to encourage young men to enlist and be ready to die a glorious death for their beloved England?even Winston Churchill eulogized Brooke as "joyous, fearless, and ruled by high, undoubting purpose" (Press 1983, 420)...
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