The war poet and war poetry in general were terms used firstly within context of the World War I.. From the beginning of the war times, poetry was written mostly by civilians, not by poets. Such poetry had no established identity. It was later, between 1914 and 1918 when this type of poetry acquired notion of genre, and so-called soldier-poets became a species. Enormous increase in writing poetry related to the war occurred. War poetry became very realistic, describing situation as it was perceived by participants and soldiers. Genre of war poetry was really powerful – it could dramatize, energize and inspire language used in poetry. Differences in usage of language in Dylan Thomas´ and George Barker´s poems can be distinguished. They combine words in atypical patterns, by their own style. Despite those
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He put emotion over order in his poems and adopted romantic themes with very subjective point of view. It can be said that everything he put on the paper was his own condition and emotion and he described his life and experience, his thinking, through the poetry. According this features he is considered to be one of the Neo-Romantic poets.
„Thomas´s grand Romantic themes offer a sharply defined and repeated structure. This, rather than incoherence , is the identifying feature of Thomas´ Neo Romanticism.“ ( CORCORAN, p.140 ).
Talking about the distinction of Thomas from other authors, and his classification, his specific use of language and style must be mentioned. Thomas was using words differently than other poets before him. He was taking a risk by combining complex words together that seemed to have no correlation. He was using words as they were their own subjects, standing alone and resisted making poetry in the way that it makes sense as prose does. (GOODBY)
„In the words of Wittgenstein, „That which expresses itself in language we cannot express by language“.
He put emotion over order in his poems and adopted romantic themes with very subjective point of view. It can be said that everything he put on the paper was his own condition and emotion and he described his life and experience, his thinking, through the poetry. According this features he is considered to be one of the Neo-Romantic poets.
„Thomas´s grand Romantic themes offer a sharply defined and repeated structure. This, rather than incoherence , is the identifying feature of Thomas´ Neo Romanticism.“ ( CORCORAN, p.140 ).
Talking about the distinction of Thomas from other authors, and his classification, his specific use of language and style must be mentioned. Thomas was using words differently than other poets before him. He was taking a risk by combining complex words together that seemed to have no correlation. He was using words as they were their own subjects, standing alone and resisted making poetry in the way that it makes sense as prose does. (GOODBY)
„In the words of Wittgenstein, „That which expresses itself in language we cannot express by language“.