Everything to Nothing - Buelens Geert
Everything to Nothing - Buelens Geert The poets' Great War: violence, revolution and modernismThe First World War changed the map of Europe forever. The conflict opened up a vista of possibilities…
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Everything to Nothing - Buelens Geert
The poets' Great War: violence, revolution and modernismThe First World War changed the map of Europe forever. The conflict opened up a vista of possibilities and tragedies for poetic exploration, and at the same time poetry was a tool for manipulating the sentiments of the combatant peoples. Empires collapsed, new countries were born, revolutions shocked and inspired the world.This tumult, sometimes referred to as 'the literary war', saw an extraordinary outpouring of writing.
We think of war poets as pacifistic protestors, but that view has been created retrospectively. In Germany alone during the first few months there were over a million poems of propaganda published. The verse of the time, particularly in the early years of the conflict--in Fernando Pessoa or Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, for example--could find in the violence and technology of modern warfare an
Nothing Being Everything
Nothing to Grasp
Nothing To Lose
Nothing To Fear
Nothing to Hide
Nothing More to Tell