| 词条 | The Dead-Beat |
| 释义 |
"The Dead-Beat" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. CompositionOwen developed the poem while he was a patient at Craiglockhart, a hospital for officers suffering with mental illness.[1] It was here that he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon and where his personal psychological healing from the traumas of war. "The Dead-Beat" marked the beginning of his writings as representations of soldiers who could no longer tell their own stories.[2] In writing the poem, Owen received help from Sassoon, who he elsewhere called one of his dearest friends. Sassoon's influence is apparent particularly in the poem's anger over injustice.[3] Owen described the experience in a letter in which he suggested that the middle sections needed work.[1] The night he met Sassoon, he began writing "The Dead-Beat", as described in the letter: "After leaving him, I wrote something in Sassoon's style... The last thing he said was 'Sweat your guts out writing poetry!' 'Eh?' says I. 'Sweat your guts out, I say!'"[3] Pat Barker, in her novel Regeneration, describes a fictitious workshop between the poets based on this letter.[1] AnalysisLike many of his poems about the war, Owen explored both courage and cowardice in "The Dead-Beat".[4] He also attempts to emulate the vernacular of a common soldier in a realistic war setting.[5] In particular, "The Dead-Beat" depicts how war can isolate rather than unite individuals who share common causes or experiences.[6] References1. ^1 2 {{Cite journal| last = Joyes| first = Kaley| title = Regenerating Wilfred Owen: Pat Barker's revisions| journal = Mosaic | volume = 42| issue = 3| year = 2009| pages = 169–83| issn= 0027-1276}} {{Wikisource|Poems_by_Wilfred_Owen/The_Dead-Beat|The Dead-Beat}}{{Wilfred Owen}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dead-Beat}}{{poem-stub}}2. ^Hipp, Daniel. The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005: 54. {{ISBN|0-7864-2174-6}} 3. ^Hipp, Daniel. The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005: 55. {{ISBN|0-7864-2174-6}} 4. ^Cuthbertson, Guy. Wilfred Owen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014: 217. {{ISBN|978-0-300-15300-2}} 5. ^1 Cuthbertson, Guy. Wilfred Owen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014: 204. {{ISBN|978-0-300-15300-2}} 6. ^Hipp, Daniel. The Poetry of Shell Shock: Wartime Trauma and Healing in Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney, and Siegfried Sassoon. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2005: 66. {{ISBN|0-7864-2174-6}} 2 : Poetry by Wilfred Owen|World War I poems |
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