| 词条 | Draft:Australian World War II poetry |
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Australian Great War Poetry”From grander clouds in our ‘peaceful skies’ than ever were there before / I tell you the Star of the South shall rise — in the lurid clouds of war.” (The Star of Australasia – by Henry Lawson)The Great War, also known as World War One and other names, is considered to be the most literary war in history. It produced thousands of writers in both prose and poetry. All nations contributed to the large litany of Great War poetry, and while English poets have been the most studied since the war, there were poets from many nations who wrote very good poetry which has gone, largely unnoticed in the English speaking world. The most famous poetry from the Great War is generally considered to be British, specifically poets such as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke and Lawrence Binyun, yet, probably the most known poem is In Flanders Field, written by the Canadian, John McCrea. This has been the norm in English literature ever since the study of the poetry from the Great War, however, many nations wrote poetry, and many nations wrote very good poetry: India (Sarojini Naidu), Canada (George Blackstone), Turkey (Yahya Kemal Beyatlı), Germany (August Stramm), Czech Republic (Leos Janacek), Serbia (Dusan Vasiljev), Croatia (Antun Matos), Romania (Tristan Tzara), Poland (S. Mlodozeniec), America (Alan Seeger) and France (Guillaume Apollinaire) are some examples. Also, women and children wrote poetry as well. In fact, women may account for a significant proportion of poetry from the Great War. Australia produced hundreds of poets who must be considered as Australian Great War Poets, and in many instances, these poets compare well with their British counterparts. The AGWP canon (Australian Great War Poetry Canon) may be found here: [https://dpgsheridan.wixsite.com/agwp/agwp-canon-register AGWP Canon & Register]. The listings are comprehensive and easy to follow, and in many cases, there are links to some examples of their poetry. DefinitionsTo be considered as a member of the Australian Great War Poetry Canon, there are some strict requirements that the poet must fulfil first. • Must be considered a prediction poet (writing prior to any knowledge of the Great War, such as Henry Lawson) • Must be writing between 1914 and 1939 (prior to any knowledge of World War Two) • Must be writing about the Australian involvement in the Great War • Must be Australian by birth, upbringing or living in Australia during the Great War (there may be a sub-set here to include foreigners who wrote about Australia’s involvement, such as Jessie Pope) The Australia Great War website gives a full breakdown of the inclusion criteria. A General StatementThe Great War produced a large number of Australian poets. Both men and women, soldiers, nurses, civilians and even children wrote poetry about the war, and for the most part, these poems have gone unnoticed in literary studies. There were five main arenas where Australian Great War Poetry was written in the period of 1914 to 1939: the Home Front, Gallipoli, The Middle East, The Western Front and England. These arenas were to form important segregations of poetic attitude and interest specific to the war mood at the time. Australian poets, just like their British counterparts, could be humorous, melancholy, angry or just longing for home. Many Australians, for example, wrote about the Australian flora, and how they missed it. Many of the same sorts of things were written about by English poets were also written about by Australian poets, but Australian poets were telling of an Australian experience, and it is this which gives the poetry its real value. We can trace the development of the Australian character through the Australian poetry of the Great War. For the most part, Australian Great War poets were energetic writers who saw the written word of poetry as an appropriate vehicle to express their thoughts and experiences, and in so doing, they were to capture all the many faces of war life on the Turkish peninsula, the sands of the great deserts and the mechanised mud and hell of France and Belgium. Even the streets and hospitals of England and the home life of wartime Australia. The listing of names is quite large. Australian Great War poets were every bit as good as their English counterparts, but they suffered the unfortunate fate of being citizens who lived at the far antipodes of the civilised literary world. In order to be taken seriously, the poet had to be in England, and for this reason, many of the ex-pat Australians did far better than their Australian brothers and sisters back home. Many of these poets served in more than one campaign, while others only served in one, either joining up after Gallipoli, or being invalided back home or killed in action. A small listing of Australian Great War Poets can be seen below. SoldiersLeon Gellert[1], Frank Westbrook[2], Oliver Hogue, Tom Skeyhill[3], Frederic Manning[4], Edwin Gerard[5], Geoffrey Wall[6], Walter James Redfern Turner[7], William M. McDonald[8], Ion Idriess, Andrew Barton Paterson and many others. NursesChristine Erica Strom[9], Alice Ross-King, Mary Inger and Emily 'Beryl' Henson. Civilian MenArchibald T. Strong, Arthur Henry Adams, Bernard Patrick O’Dowd, C.J. Dennis[10], Christopher Brennan[11], Edward Dyson, Henry Lawson[12], John Le Gay Brereton[13], Leonard Nelson[14] and many more. Civilian WomenAgnas Rose-Soley[15], Agnes Littlejohn[16], Alice Gore-Jones[17], Capel Boake, Dorothea McKellar, Dorothy McCrae[18], Esther Nea-Smith, Joan Torrance[19], Madoline 'Nina' Murdoch[20], Margery Ruth Betts[21], Marion Knowles, Mary Gilmore[22], May Kidson[23], Philadelphia N. Robertson[24] and many others. Foreign Pro-AustraliaArthur St. John Adcock - Lance Corporal Cobber, Cicely Fox Smith, Edgar Wallace, Ethel Campbell, Henry Newbolt, Jessie Pope and Sylvia Hobday. Prediction PoetsHenry Lawson[25] and William Wentworth to name only two. There are several. External LinksAustralian Great War Poetry WebsiteReferences{{AFC submission|||ts=20190406202332|u=Dominic Sheridan|ns=118}} |
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