LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Patriotic imagery
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Irony
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Nihilism
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Apocalyptic imagery
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Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest English poetry The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -The history of English Literature starts with the Anglo-Saxons and Germanic settlers in Anglo-Saxon England in the 5th century, c.450. The oldest English literature was in Old English which is the earliest form of English and is a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects.
Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory [1975] (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 7.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Great War and Modern Memory is a book of literary criticism written by Paul Fussell and published in 1975 by Oxford University Press. It describes the literary responses by English participants in World War I to their experiences of combat, particularly in trench warfare.