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Wilfred Owen's 'Strange Meeting' - a new poetic diction

20 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Wilfred Owen's 'Strange Meeting' - a new poetic diction.

New Techniques and a new poetical language to interpret the experience of the First World War.

And a reading of other poems by contemporary writers.

Wilfred Owen's 'Strange Meeting' - a new poetic diction.

20 Outubro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Wilfred Owen's 'Strange Meeting' - a new poetic diction.

New Techniques and a new poetical language to interpret the experience of the First World War.

And a reading of other poems by contemporary writers.

Issues of First World War English poetry

19 Outubro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Issues of First World War English poetry.

The need for a new poetical language and a few examples.

Edward Thomas, 'Rain' - acceptance of death as the natural outcome for all the living, rain as cleansing element and making everyone dissolve into the natural world. Sadness but mostly acceptance and a feeling of delivery from suffering.
Reading of a few short poems by Sassoon in the context of the creation of Wilfred Owen's poetical voice.

Note: only roughly half the expected students were able to access the Zoom meeting. Some of these were at the Faculty and wrote me about the difficulties of having a proper internet connection while there.

Some Issues of the First World War representation in Poetry.

13 Outubro 2020, 11:00 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Some Issues of the First World War representation in Poetry.

The 1st World War as a cultural, social and literary watershed.

Rereading in class of Andrew Motion's 'Harry Patch' poems (2009) or the 21st century revisiting the experience of the Great War.

A first introduction to Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches'. The war's new reality. Total war and the quest for a new poetical language.

Some Issues of the First World War representation in Poetry.

13 Outubro 2020, 09:30 • Luísa Maria Rodrigues Flora

Some Issues of the First World War representation in Poetry.

The 1st World War as a cultural, social and literary watershed.

Rereading in class of Andrew Motion's 'Harry Patch' poems (2009) or the 21st century revisiting the experience of the Great War.

A first introduction to Edward Thomas, 'Rain' as well as Isaac Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches'. The war's new reality. Total war and the quest for a new poetical language.