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Why did the mood of war poetry change?
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Natalie Goharriz Why did the mood of war poetry change? "'POETRY', Wordsworth reminds us, 'is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings', and there can be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war: hope and fear; exhilaration and humiliation; hatred - not only for the enemy, but also for generals, politicians, and war-profiteers; love - for fellow soldiers, for women and children left behind, for country (often) and cause (occasionally)." That was a quote from Jon Stallworthy, in his introduction to 'The Oxford Book of War Poetry'. The First World War was one of mankind's greatest tragedies - and the poets were those most gifted to express the experience of those traumatic years. The experience of the front line war poets was more overwhelming, more prolonged and more intense than for any previous generation of soldiers. Each one of them coped with conflicting duties, psychological...
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