- All Journals
- Al-Qadisiyah University
- Basrah University
- Kirkuk University
- Mosul University
- The Iraqi Borad for Medical Specialization
- University of Anbar
- University of Technology
- Al Mustafa University
- Al-Zahraa University for Women
- Alnoor University
- Kunooz University
- Misan University
- Ninevah University
- Tikrit University
- University of Al-Hamdaniya
- University of Kerbala
The war versus peace Language: a Study of Anti-war Language and Imagery in Selected Poems on the Iraqi war | ||
| مجلة ابحاث البصرة للعلوم الأنسانیة | ||
| Article 13, Volume 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 185-205 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Jinan F. Al-Hajaj | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The 2003 war in Iraq has generated a great deal of controversy, debate, as well as literature and more specifically poetry. Ever since, poets have continued to contribute poetry that made clear their refusal and objection to military strategies or even support and encouragement of war practices. In the case of the 2003 American war in Iraq, the pro-war is highly subordinated to the anti-war poem. Books were published before and after the war broke and websites team with poems contributed by thousands of conscientious objecting poets all over the world. This study concentrates on the anti-war poetry contributed namely by American poets. The selection of poems display viewpoints that are unanimously hostile to the war but various in the methods and strategies these anti-war views are poised. Poems by David Ferri-Smith but also by David Siluk, Charles Bernstein, and others are tackled in the current study. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| war versus peace Language; Anti; war Language; Imagery Selected Poems; Iraqi war | ||
|
Statistics Article View: 217 PDF Download: 196 |
||