Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov was an anti-war supporter and one of the famous poets in the 20th century. She was born in 1923 and started publishing her works after the Second World War. Levertov wrote a variety of poems during the Vietnam War including interesting aspects of political development. By the means of poetry Levertov was trying to touch the ethics of Americans.
She starts to write about war poems for the first time around 1966 and this is clearly indicated by her poem "Life At War". Levertov begins by her own inability to respond: "The disasters numb within us" (1st line). Because the war is far and we only familiar of it by the way of pictures and news, this makes it difficult to bring it in one's own current imagination.
"The same war continuesÂ…with the gray filth of it." (lines 12 to 18), Levertov relates "war" largely in the air we breathe in. It is the reflection that we have breathed the polluted war air daily and we are not able to take any action.
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