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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the poetry of Owen. A criticism by Yeats is examined to highlight the importance of context. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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especial interest, however, are those poets which seem to emerge directly from the experience of war, and whose works deal exclusively, topically and thematically, with the experience. That these works
stem from such an alien place in the human experience often causes them to be at odds with the expectations of traditional poetry. One classic example of this is Yeats
reaction to the poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen. This paper will attempt to examine Owens poetry in the light of Yeats criticisms, and understand how such criticisms might be addressed.
This paragraph helps the student explore Yeats response. The criticism levied by Yeats against Owen is as follows: that Owens work was "all blood, dirt, and sucked sugar stick" (Rusche,
2010). While such a statement is obviously derisive even at a superficial consideration, it can be instructive to delve deeper and understand the context of Yeats remarks. In this case,
Yeats, being a highly respected poet, had just assembled an anthology of poetry from the early half of the 20th century, and much to the chagrin of a public who
liked Owens work, Yeats had decided not to include him in that anthology (Rusche, 2010). It was on the occasion of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen
that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary justification seems to be his feeling, expressed in subsequent writing on the topic of wartime poetry that, "passive suffering
is not a theme of poetry", and that the formal structure of wartime poetry was "bound [...] to plead the suffering of men"; in other words, he felt all wartime
poetry shared an inherent thematic limitation (Sexton 1981, p. 88). It is easy to understand where Yeats is coming from. Certainly, all of Owens works address the topic of war
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