Debunking War Myths in Post-WWI Poetry

The Debunking of War Myths in Post-WWI Poetry

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Introduction

During the World War 1, about 10 million soldiers and 7 million civilians lost their lives (Poetry Foundation 1). The aftermath of the war and its horrors made the poets, film actors and writers to respond in new ways to the losses and the brutalities. The World War I poets set about shattering long-standing war myths – its honor, glory, camaraderie and so on. The poets did not write in praise of the heroes, nor about their lands, deed, power, dominion, majesty, might, honor, or glory except war, that the pity of war. The poems before World War 1 praised old virtues of glory, heroism, duty and honor while the after war poems debunked from these myths. The poems after 1915 were skeptical to these lofty abstractions and had moral…