Book contents
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Chapter 1 The Poetic Marketplace
- Chapter 2 Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Their Networks
- Chapter 3 Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines
- Chapter 4 The Continental European Literary Scene
- Chapter 5 Poetic Form: Soundscapes
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 5 - Poetic Form: Soundscapes
from Part I - Literary Contexts
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Book contents
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Chapter 1 The Poetic Marketplace
- Chapter 2 Poetic Tradition and Innovation: Georgians and Their Networks
- Chapter 3 Poetic Avant-Garde: Modernism and Little Magazines
- Chapter 4 The Continental European Literary Scene
- Chapter 5 Poetic Form: Soundscapes
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter argues that in much poetry in English of the First World War, form is most effectively exploited in the interplay between visual and auditory images that are mimetic of the immediate sensory experience of battle and the linguistic devices which channel mimesis into argument and organise the impossibly chaotic. It looks at the soundscapes and silences of poems, the detached and the visceral.
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- A History of World War One Poetry , pp. 79 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023