tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post4104690195214201980..comments2024-01-02T15:12:14.699+00:00Comments on War Poetry: Edmund BlundenTim Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17917270014209480898noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-56924044447029884772012-02-05T15:39:32.131+00:002012-02-05T15:39:32.131+00:00And yet, it was their sacrifice, that stopped an a...And yet, it was their sacrifice, that stopped an aggressively expansionist Germany. It's a circle that I find hard to square, the individual experiences of boredom, frustration and terror with the struggle to defeat an enemy that had very definite plans for Europe and Africa. Blunden brought the eye of a poet to the wastelands of the Ypres Salient and did not concern himself with the aims of the war. Reading Undertones of War, and as I commented in my blog, http://literarytaste.wordpress.com/, I was surprised at how uncomfortable I felt reading it. In the end, and this is what surprised and upset me, I could not unconditionally follow him as he laid out with lucid clarity what he he saw in his time in the trenches.The Scotsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02125650885769132144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-36865390390024322232012-01-18T13:26:08.361+00:002012-01-18T13:26:08.361+00:00Thank you for sharing this. Your work is extremely...Thank you for sharing this. Your work is extremely pertinent to today's veterans --who are all working their way through the aftermath of war. I'm going to share your blog with my readers at WarRetreat.Org on our Facebook page. <br /><br />@Instant Nowhwere: As for present day poets from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a few years ago, the National Endowment for the Arts in the USA had a very good program that took active duty and veterans, as well as military families through the writing process. It was called Operation Homecoming, and a book was published in 2006. Writers' groups continue to this day and a great many work out the aftermath through writing.Kanani Fonghttp://warretreat.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499661274163551793.post-4757246778802077692012-01-17T21:23:43.965+00:002012-01-17T21:23:43.965+00:00Who are the modern day war poets in Afghanistan, I...Who are the modern day war poets in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo and so on. Very few poets appear to make a mark on the world now when we are in a state of slowly escalating chaos. Blunden has a great skill at combining the agony and horror with the everyday scene. Lurking behind it all is the two. Space / time linked.Instant Nowhere Korporation Ltdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07447143423753659437noreply@blogger.com