HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gargling, Celtic Mythology, Four Quartets
15 Dec 2020
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English youth had been sacrificed in poets" eyes. Many war poets (who survived war) incl. 1914: joined royal navy + his sonnets were published in the same year. Body is envisioned as material emblem of english spirit should this body die sth good will come out of this. England: mother country; shaped the soldier"s body in all kind of ways. Died one year after of blood poisoning. If i should die, think only this of me: That there"s some corner of a foreign field. In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom england bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. From wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est (1917/18) Disillusioned protest + attempt to bear witness to the tragedy of the war. Turns reader into a witness from a scene which people usually wouldn"t see.
