Sea Fever 1) Who wrote the poem ‘Sea Fever’? Ans:- John Masefield wrote the poem ’Sea Fever’. 2) What was the favourite place of the poet? Ans:- To see the sea was the favourite place of the poet. 3) What do you mean by steer? Ans:- Steer means to control the direction of movement. 4) What was the colour of mist on the sea’s face? Ans:- The colour of the mist was grey. 5) What thing did not the poet deny? Ans:- The poet can not deny the call of running tide. 6) Write the name of Sea-bird? Ans:- Sea-gull is the name of a sea-bird. 7) Who wants to live a gypsy life? Ans:- The poet wants to become a gypsy life. 8) Write the name of the sea-animal? Ans:- Whale, a name of the sea-animal. 9) What do you mean by whetted knife? Ans:- Whetted knife means sharpened knife. 10) What kind of day does the poet prefer for siling? Ans:- The poet prefers va...
The War Poets or the Trench poets are known as Anti-War poets because the soldier cum poets not show the brevity of war but the futility of war. War poetry is nothing but the shadow of brutal life among the soldiers during the First World War. The War Poets wrote their poetry to raise the question either life or death; National Pride or own existence; duty or guilt; courage or cowardness. Rupard Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg are the most prominent Anti-War Poets. They are all involved directly into the War and eye witness to see the brutality in the name of National Pride at the battlefield.
Wilfred Owen: (1893-1918)
He was one of the most prominent Anti-War Poets during the First World War as well as a soldier. He wrote many poems about war but only five poems were published in his lifetime but most important poems are published posthumously. Futility, Strange Meeting, Insensibility, Dulce et Decorum est are the important poems. In his poem, he showed the terror of trenches, the pitiful shadow of soldiers' lives.
He wrote about War Poems in Preface to Edition:
"'This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them.
Nor is it about deeds, or lands,
nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War.
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry.My subject is War, and the pity of War.The Poetry is in the pity."
Siegfried Sassoon:(1886-1967)
War poetry is not complete without the work of Siegfried Sassoon,who was awarded the Queen's Medal for poetry in 1957. He was not only a poet but also a soldier. He shook the literary world to write his angry and compassionate poems about World War I. Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and ironically criticized those men who were the blind supporters of the brutal war. The Hero, Counter-attack, The Death Bed, Attack, Memorial Tablet are the most important poems written by him. He wrote in his poem Trench Duty the extreme situation of the soldiers:
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"Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake,
Out in the trench with three hours' watch to take,
I blunder through the splashing mirk; and then
Hear the gruff muttering voices of the men……….
What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Someone killed?"
Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire:
Why did he do it?… Starlight overhead—
Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead."
Rupard Brooke:
Most of the critics said that Rupert Brooke already took the position of literary figure before the First World War but he was not a war poet like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. The "Idealism" of Brooke's war Sonnet is the glorification of War in which he ignored the carnage and brutality of war and it is the only reason he never faces the actual horror of war on the battlefield. His literary friends established him as one of the leading war poets in British poetry. In his famous Sonnet, The Soldier, he wrote like an ideal patriot:
"If I should die, think only this of me;
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England."
Edward Thomas:
He is commonly considered a war poet. His poem, The Pity of the War to Aftermath, reflects his changing attitude to the war. His most prominent poems are Owl, When First, Addlestrot. The Owl is the poem in which shows the mental depression, grief,disgusts and panic of brutal War:
"And salted was my food, and my repose,
Salted and sobered, too, by the bird’s voice
Speaking for all who lay under the stars,
Soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice"
Conclusion:
War which have been transmitted in the poetry and show the realistic atmosphere of deadly warfare and the bloodshed at the battlefield by the eye witness soldier-poets. Ironically the Anti-war poets threw the question to society that what is the actual purpose of War? And Why did people fight ? And as a result, the soldiers gain the futility of life and tragic tauma that haunts soldiers' lives forever. It is the national pride but failure of a soldier's own life.The war poets realised that war was a destroying force which never took the ultimate decision for better life.
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