Propaganda and Poetry during the Great War.

<p>During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War. Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth of modern mechanical warfare. The majority and most recognized and admired poets, including those who served on the front and knew firsthand the horrors of trench warfare, not only supported the war effort, but also encouraged its continuation. For the majority of the poets, the rejection of the war was a postwar phenomenon. From the trenches, leading Great War poets; Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Sitwell, and others, learned that the War was neither Agincourt, nor the playing fields of ancient public schools, nor the supreme test of valor but, instead, the modern industrial world in miniature, surely, the modern world at its most horrifying.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis - unrestricted

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Leadingham, Norma Compton

• R Graves
• Propaganda
• S. Sassoon
• Rudyard Kipling
• O. Sitwell
• propaganda and poetry
• Rupert Brookes
• W. Owen
• G. B. Shaw
• British Great War Poets
• Wellington House
• Arnold Bennett
• H.G. Wells.
• Arts and Humanities
• English Language and Literature
• History
• Literature in English, British Isles
• Military History

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• Copyright by the authors.

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1966

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oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-3318