LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Georgian poetry was modeled on World War I poetry and adapted its insights to postwar realities.
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Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with the effects of urbanization and industrialization.
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Unlike World War I poetry, Georgian poetry was concerned primarily with women’s rights.
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World War I poets like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen adapted the Georgian poetic manner to write about modern subjects; most Georgian poets focused on individual experience and avoided writing about the upheavals of modernity.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pre-war Georgian poetry is typified as dreamy and romantic and escapist in comparison with the harshness of war described by the realists.
Detailed explanation-2: -During Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon’s shared months at Craiglockhart War Hospital, the two became great companions and Sassoon became a mentor for Owen. Owen frequently sought Sassoon’s advice on his poems and got his mother to send his manuscripts from home so that he could show them to him.
Detailed explanation-3: -The common features of the poems in these publications were romanticism, sentimentality, and hedonism. Later critics have attempted to revise the definition of the term as a description of poetic style, thereby including some new names or excluding some old ones.
Detailed explanation-4: -Georgian Poetry was a series of 5 anthologies published between 1911 and 1922 by Harold Edward Monro and edited by Edward Marsh.