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War Propaganda in Edna St.Vincent Millay'sMake Bright the Arrows: 1940 Notebook | ||
| Journal of Research Diyala humanity | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 50, 2017, Pages 555-572 | ||
| Author | ||
| Asmaa Najim Abed Nassir | ||
| Abstract | ||
| When the Second World War broke out the majority of poets followed the literary fashion of war poetry established by the First World War poets Wilfred Owen(1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon(1886-1967) in expressing antiwar attitudes. Unlike this trend was the attitude the American poet Edna St.Vincent Millay adopted and expressed openly in her war poems. Hence, despite the revulsion other poets expressed against Nazism and Fascism and the despicability they showed against Hitler and Mussolini they yet wrote against the destruction war brings to life and civilization. Millay, on the other hand, concentrated on the destruction Hitler already brought to Europe and life, therefore instead of being antiwar she wrote propagandist poetry that called the United States government to give up isolationism and support the European allies against the fuehrer and his army hoping that stopping him will reset order again in Europe and the world. This paper, therefore, tries to trace the development of Millay's political interest from early youth, the time of the First World War, which was relatively weak then developed with such events as the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the Spanish war till it came to its last flowering at the outbreak of the Second War. It analyses as well the themes of most of the poems she wrote during that time and the reasons and occasions behind writing them, which shows that despite the critical acclaim they lacked the poems were yet of historical importance because they expressed the ideas of an American majority that believed to be part of the democratic world and a growing world power. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Poets of World War II; the poet Millay and political attention to this poet | ||
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