Feminist Experience in World War I: A Selected Study of War Poets and their Poetical Innovations (original) (raw)

World War I served a crucial way for British to display patriotic intention. This chauvinism is present not only in the field of honour but also in creative space of literature too especially in poetry. However, the war time literature behaves to be seen as homogeneous arena consisting invariably of critiquing and idolizing men. The purpose of this paper will be to highlight on women's writing, acknowledging their diversity and therefore understand gamut of war literature in its totality. Various facets of female experience are expressed in the following quoted texts which reveal the fact that women were not only serious of war but also desired to be an active part in an affair which glorified their motherland to the fullest. In order to discover such inquisitive lesson one needs to pursuit a cursory reading of Emily Caroline Oliphant's "Socks" and Rose Macaulay's "Many Sisters to Many Brothers" to mark the dichotomy of expression. While Macaulay's poem decries a longing for participation in war, "Socks" decries war with a hint of irony. In this paper I will investigate how a new approach has been discovered out of such diverse experience that wheedled out various concerns previously hidden in the womb of War literature and inaugurate a fresh line of inquiry through feminist lens.