Tuesday, May 21, 2019

World War I and World War II

The period afterwards World 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, knowing to be alive and family reunions. Since citizenry are still experiencing the aftermath of the war, poets and authors alike were also feeling the fever. Rupert Brooke was easily known for his war poems that vividly described what he saw, relating the fear and devastation he felt darn fighting 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 a few(prenominal) Figs from Thistles and a Pulitzer Award Winning collection of poems, respectively. However, other authors like John Hall Wheelock began publishing The Lib eontor, a weekly journal of criticizing the current society radically, where he soon became affiliated with the communist party.There were somewhat who were not conten ted with the result of the war and went on to protest through their writings. Filling up the peoples mind with what if questions, and if this was what they want. This somehow changed the peoples view and a mixture of reactions was elevated against their current situation. For example in the aftermath of World War II, a wave of sympathy was effrontery 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 dreadful for the literary works world since authors did not have the acquaintance anymore to write anything out of topic and was not able to deviate from the current issues that were going on at that time.Works CitedOnline Focus. War Poets. A Newshou r 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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