Motifs : A Peer Reviewed International Journal of English Studies
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 1

War through the eyes of wilfred owen and siegfried sassoon: A study

1Research Scholar, Banasthali Vidyapith University, Banasthali-304022, Rajasthan, India

2Assistant Professor, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur-303007, Rajasthan, India

*Corresponding author) email id: niharika.ns97@gmail.com

**mnjkmr809@gmail.com

Online published on 8 September, 2021.

Abstract

English poetry has seen various celebrated poets including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Donne, Milton, etc. Their works are often studied based on one’s viewpoint of their lives, which is tougher than it seems. The thematic study of poetry is often time-bound and acts as an eye-opening experience for the readers, as they look forward to understanding other’s interpretations. Poetry and literature are some of the biggest tools through which one can explore various explicit themes of history. As long as there has been war, there have been authors attempting to understand it, transforming front line repulsions into a story, attempting to make something helpful out of its debris. Works describing World War 1 became one of the biggest contributions to modern English literature. War poetry may be a writing genre that stemmed during the time of war when several soldiers, as well as civilians trapped in the struggles of war, began writing poetry as a way of depicting extreme emotions on the very edge of experience.

Keywords

Eyes, Siegfried, Wilfred