Naslov
Officers of World War I: Culprits of Tragedies or Nurturing Fathers

Autori
Periš, Lucija

Izvornik
Kick

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostali radovi sa studija

Godina
2015

Ključne riječi
Ewart Alan Mackintosh, Siegfried Sassoon, war poetry, World War I

Sažetak
World War I was one of the biggest atrocities in the history, and as such affected numerous soldiers. Some of the soldiers, like Ewart Alan Mackintosh and Siegfried Sassoon, expressed their animosity towards the war in their poetry. They avoided writing “about a mystical, merging, atoning death”(Fraser 335), but chose to recall the brutality of the warfare. Ewart Alan Mackintosh was a lieutenant who led an attack in the Battle of Arras. During this raid a soldier called David Sutherland died, which inspired him to write the poem In Memoriam. Mackintosh laments his David's departure, dedicates him a poem, and confirms the strong bond between him and his men. Siegfried Sassoon expresses his opinion about the troop leaders in his poem The General. He addresses the unnamed and incompetent general who is directly responsible for the soldiers’ tragic fate. In his poem, Sassoon is “protesting against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed”(Bloom 48). This paper will try to compare poems In Memoriam and The General, and explore the two types of officers depicted in the poems-caring and bereaved father, whose image we build upon Mackintosh's poem and who represents Mackintosh ; and a careless culprit of carnage represented in Sassoon's poem. To begin with, the crucial difference between the two officers is the bond they share with their soldiers. Lieutenant Mackintosh in his poem mourns David’s death and proves that combatants are not just entities without individual significance. His relationship with the soldiers is not merely a duty, but it grows into a parental love and inextricable connection.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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