This thesis examines the controversial South African War's influence on English poetry, highlighting the individual responses of established poets and drawing on the work of numerous minor verse-writers to define the changing tradition of 'patriotic' and 'war' poetry. Chapter I sketches the historical and social background, noting how events in South Africa assumed great magnitude for contemporaries whose popular Imperialism was severely tried and who made an unprecedented national 'war-effort'. In Chapter II the late-nineteenth-century tradition of 'patriotic' poetry is identified, through analysis of verse-anthologies and contemporary critical opinion, and by briefly studying the war's lesser poetry which confirmed this mood of Art-for-Morality's-sake writing. Chapter III describes Kipling's personal affection for South Africa, and the political aspirations which were related to his dedicated 1890s' verse-lessons. His reactions to the conflict reveal the disillusionment which distanced Kipling from his audience and changed his patriotic and imperialistic teaching. Inflated by the war, 'Rudyard Kiplingism' became a powerful literary movement. Chapter IV explains the discredit brought by Robert Buchanan's 'Hooligan' criticism, Edgar Wallace's 'barrack-room ballad' imitations, and Kipling's own ill-judged verses 'The Absent-Minded Beggar', but also argues that certain soldier-poets usefully exploited his reputation. Chapter V evaluates the contributions of four respected and influential patriotic poets: the 'undistinguished adequacy' of Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate; the strident verses of W.E. Henley; Henry Newbolt's strongly idealistic encouragement and consolation; and William Watson's brave but costly anti-war stance. Chapter VI considers a variety of poets in demonstrating how, while religious sanction for human conflict and empire-building was emphatically re-affirmed, some questioned the principle of War (including Meredith and Hardy) and denounced the sufferings inflicted on the Boers. The strain imposed on fireside poets' customary responses and rhetoric is outlined in Chapter VII, which also discusses the sentiments of Hardy's discontented 'war-poetry' and The Dynasts, before assessing the impact of personal bereavement on A.E. Housman's loyal poetry.

Thesis (M.A.)--Villanova University, 2009. / English Dept. Includes bibliographical references.

This study aims to compare British war poetry of the First World War with Iraqi poetry from the mid-20th century with special reference to Iraqi war poetry of the 1980’s Iraq-Iran War and the period that followed it. It will also investigate the influence of the designated British war poetry on the chosen body of Iraqi poetry. Through the comparison of sample poems the study presents, firstly, the direct influence of the British poetry of the Great War and its translation which formed the seeds of a more radical movement in Iraqi poetry during the 1980’s Iran/Iraq War and the period that followed it. The study also presents a comparison of the works of British and Iraqi civilian poets during and after the war time and their contribution in setting the ground for the younger generation to create more subversive poetic forms with special reference to women as influential characters and inspirations in their works. The moment of the 1980’s war marks the break with the clear direct influence of British war poetry and starts another phase of the comparison of a universal bond of similar reactions, conscious and unconscious expression reflecting the lives of the combatant group of men first and then of poets sharing a devastating war reality. The study reveals a remarkable, more radical change of poetic forms in Iraqi poetry between the time of the first seeds planted by the influence of translations from European poetry until the time of the Iran/Iraq war and the Gulf War in 1991 and the rise of the new nihilistic generation of the 1990s subverting war, politics and cultural life through their innovation in prose poem writing and its significance as an alternative space for their political and social subversion.

The main theme of this thesis is English war poetry. The thesis refers to two particular wars, the Crimean (1853-1856) and World War One (1914-1918), and analyzes their reflection in English poetry. By doing so, it compares the war poems from these periods and inspects the writers' messages behind them. The thesis aims to scrutinize how the depiction of war had changed through time, alongside with the reasons affected it. In terms of structure, the theoretical part describes the different contexts (historical, cultural, and literary) of the chosen poems, while the practical part features scrutiny of these works. KEY WORDS Poetry, soldier, duty, death, attitude, criticism, propaganda

The main theme of this thesis is English war poetry. The thesis refers to two particular wars, the Crimean (1853-1856) and World War One (1914-1918), and analyzes their reflection in English poetry. By doing so, it compares the war poems from these periods and inspects the writers' messages behind them. The thesis aims to scrutinize how the depiction of war had changed through time, alongside with the reasons affected it. In terms of structure, the theoretical part describes the different contexts (historical, cultural, and literary) of the chosen poems, while the practical part features scrutiny of these works. KEY WORDS Poetry, soldier, duty, death, attitude, criticism, propaganda

This study analyzes a recently published collection of poetry on the ongoing Russo-krainian war. Against a background of Russia’s new oppressive laws concerning the fact that a person can be sent to prison for up to 15 years for spreading “false information” about the war the study aims to investigate the way poets express themselves in the collective work Poeziia poslednego vremeni: Khronika, published in Saint Petersburg in the fall of 2022. The study was conducted through content analysis and close reading of selected poems of the collection. Conclusions that was drawn from the study is that the collective work contains poems with a strong anti-war message. Poets take a clear standpoint in the collection against the Russian regime and the war and oftentimes use a satirical and ironic way to undermine both the war and the Russian regime, which is remarkable considering the risk taken when speaking out against the war in today’s Russia.

The main theme of this thesis is English war poetry. The thesis refers to two particular wars, the Crimean (1853-1856) and World War One (1914-1918), and analyzes their reflection in English poetry. By doing so, it compares the war poems from these periods and inspects the writers' messages behind them. The thesis aims to scrutinize how the depiction of war had changed through time, alongside with the reasons affected it. In terms of structure, the theoretical part describes the different contexts (historical, cultural, and literary) of the chosen poems, while the practical part features scrutiny of these works. KEY WORDS Poetry, soldier, duty, death, attitude, criticism, propaganda

<p>Poetry magazines are a reflection of the trends and the pressures of their ages: such was the case with Howard Sergeant's Outposts. Howard Sergeant was the longest continuous editor of a single literary magazine in the English language. Founded in 194) under the pressures of the Second World War, Outposts continued under his editorial direction until ill-health forced him to relinquish the reins in 1986.</p> <p>Between 1944 and 1986, Sergeant and Outposts played a key role in many of the major trends, groups and movements that shaped modern British poetry. Begun as a poetry and critical journal with a wartime "Apocalyptic'' slant, Sergeant's Outposts evolved through the changes which encompassed the Nee-Romantics, the Personalists, The Movement, the Mavericks, The Group, the pop poets, and the Martians and Narrative poets of the Eighties.</p> <p>Sergeant was among the first to recognize these changes in British poetry, and his magazine is a crosssection of the currents and counter-currents of the period. His major accomplishments include the founding of the British Poetry Association with Dorothy Wellesley and Siegfried Sassoon, his recognition and promotion of Commonwealth poetry (which launched the first Commonwealth movement in Britain), and his support of poets in the earliest stages of their development as a judge for the Gregory Awards with Herbert Read, T.S. Eliot, Henry Moore, and Philip Larkin. Among the key figures whose relationships to Sergeant are discussed are Muriel Spark, Earle Birney, Kingsley Amis, Seamus Heaney, Peter Redgrove, Dannie Abse, and D.M. Thomas.</p> <p>Set in the context of forty years of highly charged activity on the British poetry scene, Sergeant's story is one of prudence, critical intelligence, and perseverance. As a poet, editor, and critic, Sergeant's role in British poetry is examined and discussed, and his contributions to the art are weighed against the achievements of those he assisted.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Le premier conflit mondial qui met fin à l’après-midi doré de l’époque édouardienne signe l’entrée du Royaume-Uni dans le XXe siècle politique et esthétique. La place unique qu’occupe la Grande Guerre dans l’imaginaire collectif britannique participe de l’engouement populaire que suscite encore aujourd’hui la war poetry, devenue un véritable « lieu de mémoire » textuel. Son importance dans le paysage culturel britannique paraît dès lors démesurée par rapport à la place qu’elle occupe dans le canon poétique du XXe siècle. À la fois conservatrice et innovante, respectueuse des formes mais sujette à l’expérimentation, l’œuvre des war poets, souvent confondue avec celle des Georgian poets, se range du côté des modernes plutôt que des modernistes. Poésie de circonstance définie par le moment et le lieu d’écriture, elle est jugée à l’aune de la problématique moderne de l’œuvre « impure », poésie tournée vers la révélation de l’événement plutôt que vers l’acte de création. C’est cette tension entre l’appel du monde et l’appel du texte qui fonde la définition générique, esthétique et éthique de la war poetry. Son intérêt critique réside dans sa double finalité, son hybridité tonale, générique et formelle, sa nature composite et polymorphe qui l’inscrivent de plain-pied dans le registre de la dissonance, propre à la poésie moderne. / By putting an end to the golden Edwardian afternoon, the First World War propelled Britain into the political and aesthetic twentieth century. Owing to the unique place occupied by the Great War in the collective British mind, war poetry represents today a highly popular textual “realm of memory”. However, its relevance in Britain’s cultural landscape does not correspond to its status within the poetic canon of the twentieth century. Both conservative and innovative, intent on codified forms yet experimental in nature, often confused with Georgian Poetry, war poetry leans towards the modern rather than the modernist definition of poetry. As a form of occasional writing, determined by the place and time from which it sprung, war poetry is judged according to the modern standards of “impure poetry”, more focused on the revelation of the event than on the act of creation itself. It is the contradictory claims of world and text that found the generic, aesthetic and ethical definition of war poetry. Its critical interest resides in its dual purpose, its tonal, generic and formal hybridity, its complex and changing nature, which firmly inscribe it within the modern poetics.

A poesia de José Paulo Paes, produzida ao longo de mais de meio século, exibe uma considerável diversidade de formas e conteúdos, desde manifestações líricas a poemas em prosa, de experimentações visuais e fotográficas a brevíssimos textos cômicos. De forma geral, porém, a contraposição entre o desencanto e a utopia é um fundo temático que subsiste em boa parte desta obra, com oscilações entre ambos os polos. O presente trabalho sustenta que, apesar dos momentos em que há de fato um exaurimento da esperança diante do mundo e suas instituições opressoras, a tônica de sua poética é a presença de uma voz utópica, mais definida e clara até os anos 50, e que vai empalidecendo sistematicamente a partir da década seguinte, com a consagração da sociedade de consumo e do capitalismo tardio. Tal vetor de resistência atinge o quase desaparecimento, metaforizado pelos escombros, que, ainda fumegantes, conservam contudo a possibilidade da utopia. Esta, raramente enunciada de forma explícita, expressa-se primordialmente por dois modos distintos, a saber: a) a memória, primeiramente enquanto tentativa de intervenção política por meio da revisitação histórica, e posteriormente como rememoração individual, retorno à infância em uma estética tardia de natureza narrativa, de pouquíssimos efeitos poéticos, que se afasta do estilo consagrado do escritor em livros anteriores; b) o humor, que evolui de uma ironia mais direta e agressiva ao epigrama chistoso, elaborada forma poemática que consiste em obter comicidade a partir de trocadilhos, paronomásias, homonímias, enfim, com o trabalho linguístico. A partir, então, de ambas as estratégias, o poeta, de maneiras diferentes, se aproxima da oralidade, seja no ato de narrar histórias, seja na manipulação lúdica dos significantes, o que remonta às tradições de povos antigos e/ou sem uma cultura escrita. Tal retorno ao passado da humanidade (ou do sujeito, o in fans, aquele que não fala) é uma saída da História, uma negação do nefasto tempo presente e um modo de existir possível à utopia. Tal postura, em Paes, é satírica, bem como política. Por conta disso, a fim de se expandirem as possibilidades de iluminação crítica do período, faz-se ainda um painel acerca da poesia engajada e do chiste no pós-guerra brasileiro. / José Paulo Paes poetry, written throughout over fifty years, displays a considerable diversity of both form and content, ranging from lyric manifestation to prose poems, from visual and photographic experimental poetry to short comic texts. In general terms, however, the opposition discouragement/utopia is the thematic scenery that persists over most of his works, oscillating between both poles. The present dissertation defends that, in spite of several moments in which it is noticeable the fatigue of his hopes due to the world´s oppressing institutions, the major tone of his poetics is the existence of a utopian voice, more defined up to the fifties, that gradually weakens from the sixties on, after the consolidation of late capitalism and the mass consumption society. Such resistance arm practically vanishes away, which is portrayed by the metaphor \"debris\", which, nonetheless, are still \"steaming\", conserving the possibility of utopia. The latter, rarely expressed in an explicit way, is presented basically by two different modes: a) the memory, firstly as an attempt of a political intervention through the historical re-analysis, and, afterwards, by the personal remembrance, the return to childhood in a rather peculiar esthetical form: through narrative verses with no or very few poetic effects, far from the style the author used to have in previous books; b) the humor, which evolves from a more direct and sharp irony to the witty epigram, an elaborate poematic structure that obtains humor from puns, paronyms, homonyms, i.e., with the linguistic handling. Then, both strategies, in different ways, lead the poet to approach the orality in his works, be it in the act of narrating, be it in the joyful work of the signifier, which brings such poetry to the tradition of ancient societies and/or societies with no written culture. Such return to the past of humanity (or of the infant, from the Latin in fans, the one who does not speak) is an exit from History, a negation of the horrid present and a possible mode of existing for utopia. This posture, in Paes, is both satirical and political. Due to that, an after war Brazilian poetry overview has been done concerning both topics, so that they can be enlightened in such generation.