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Thursday, February 28, 2019

World War I and World War II

The period after earthly concern War I and World War II, this was approximately during the years 1919 to 1944, and after 1946, various sentiments appeared ranging from loss, death, suffering, content to be alive and family reunions. Since pack are still experiencing the aftermath of the war, poets and authors homogeneous were also feeling the fever. Rupert Brooke was well known for his war poems that vividly exposit what he saw, relating the fear and devastation he felt while rubbish in the battlefield.Fiction novelist D.H. Laurence, poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay and Robert Frost became well known for their works that includes Women in Love, A Few Figs from Thistles and a Pulitzer Award Winning collection of poems, respectively. However, otherwise authors like John Hall Wheelock began publishing The Liberator, a weekly diary of criticizing the current society radically, where he soon became affiliated with the communist party. in that respect were some who were not contente d with the result of the war and went on to avouch through their writings. Filling up the peoples mind with what if questions, and if this was what they fatality. This somehow changed the peoples view and a mixture of reactions was raise against their current situation. For example in the aftermath of World War II, a wave of sympathy was given to the holocaust survivors, while others, still, believed in Hitlers ideology.From this event, numerous autobiographical accounts were published, the famous of which was The Diary of Anne Frank. Nonetheless, the conflict that arose from this era was that people became too sensitive in what was written down in journals, poems, stories or even in any articles. Such sensitivity was somehow shocking for the literature world since authors did not have the liberty anymore to relieve anything out of topic and was not able to deviate from the current issues that were passing on at that time.Works CitedOnline Focus. War Poets. A Newshour with Jim Lehrer Transcript. February 17, 2003. November 5, 2007. http//www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june03/war_poets_2-17.htmlWorld Chronology(1919, 1920). Answers.Com Website. November 5, 2007. http//www.answers.com/topic/1919?cat= technologyliteraturehttp//www.answers.com/topic/1920?cat=technologyliteratureBetween The Covers Rare Books, Inc. Website. November 5, 2007. http//www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/awards/1000304

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