War Poetry Analysis: Comparison Between A.E. Houseman's "Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose" And Walt Whitman's "Reconciliation"
19 October 2006
War Poetry Analysis: Comparison between A.E. Houseman's "Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose" and Walt Whitman's "Reconciliation"
The XX century was marked by warlike conflicts; the biggest of them were the two World Wars, which affected the entire world in many different ways, without forgot the millions of people dead in them. As result is not rare that most part of the English poetry created in the beginning of the last century have as main subject the war, for this we can find a richer variety of poems, which show to us so many different points of view of war and tell us diverse experiences of life. For this reason, I will make a comparison between the poems "Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose" of A.E. Housman and "Reconciliation" of Walt Whitman. And if is true that both poems share the same topic, their clearly differ among them.
In Housman's poem, there is a dead young men talking to us of the futility of heroism, and a dark suspicion......
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