LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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The devastation wrought by World War I was so enormous that it put Europe’s cultural and political norms and values into question.
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The mechanized killing, which took place on a massive scale during World War I, made it necessary to reflect about the effects of technological progress.
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World War I was the first global conflict where the distinction between combatants and civilians was erased, and this had a devastating effect on the European psyche.
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -The disillusionment that grew out of the war contributed to the emergence of modernism, a genre which broke with traditional ways of writing, discarded romantic views of nature and focused on the interior world of characters.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the War, a general sense of purposelessness and defeat led to a movement both in modernism and in anti-authoritarianism and nihilism in literature and in art. A sense of separation between the artist and writer and the general public was created during this time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poetry seemed a natural outlet for the intense emotions generated by the war and its range challenges the concept that only those with direct experience of fighting, i.e. soldiers, were allowed to write about war. The Great War was a total war and no one was left untouched by it.
Detailed explanation-4: -World War I had a profound effect on the further development of the modernist movement. The poetry that followed World War I reflected the disillusionment of those who had experienced the tragedy and horror of modern combat.