AQA (A): Paper 2A World War I and its aftermath
Analysing First World War poetry presents significant challenges. War and poetry are arguably antitheses. War’s truth is violence, disorder, incoherence. In The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, George Walker has included only those writers whose lives were violently disrupted by the conflict, whether on the front line or the home front; for them, poetry was the way to interpret their individual wartime experiences. This article argues that poetry, with its emphasis on shape, pattern and order, provides the ideal medium through which to express the chaotic truth of war.
Your organisation does not have access to this article.
Sign up today to give your students the edge they need to achieve their best grades with subject expertise
Subscribe
