The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and Siegfried SassoonMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 28 de jul. 2005 - 224 pàgines The British poets Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon found themselves psychologically altered by what they experienced in the First World War. Owen was hospitalized in April 1917 for "shell shock" in Scotland, where he met Siegfried Sassoon in June of that year, hospitalized for the same affliction. Ivor Gurney found the war, ironically, to have been a place of relative stability within an otherwise tormented life; When he was wounded during the war's final year, his doctors observed signs of mental illness, which evolved into incapacitating psychosis by 1922. For each of these men--all poets before the war--poetry served as a way to inscribe continuity into their lives, enabling them to retaliate against the war's propensity to render the lives of the participants discontinuous. Poetry allowed them to return to the war through memory and imagination, and poetry helped them to bring themselves back from psychological breakdown to a state of stability, based upon a relationship to the war that their literary war enabled them to create and discover. This work investigates the ways in which the poetry of war functioned as a means for these three men to express the inexpressible and to extract value out of the experience of war. Bibliography and index are also included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. |
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... suffering is glorified as the means to wisdom . " 44 Owen's implicit association of his own suffering with that of the dying soldier makes both men heroic for what they have endured , and furthermore , asserting this relationship ...
... suffering but because he has " seen and endured " the suffering of his men . The suffering which Sas- soon experiences and to which he objects is the structure of warfare that he believes implicates him because of his place in the chain ...
... suffering is not a theme for poetry .... If war is necessary , or necessary in our time and place , it is best to forget its suffering as we do the discomfort of fever , remembering our comfort at midnight when our temperature fell , or ...
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Preface | 1 |
Shell Shock in World War I | 15 |
By degrees Regained cool peaceful air in wonder | 44 |
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