전쟁과 연민: 휘트먼과 오웬의 전쟁시 읽기

War and Pity: Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen"s War Poetry

&nbsp;&nbsp;This thesis intends to research the war and pity depicted in Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen&quot;s truthful War Poetry set in the Civil War and the First World War.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Whitman refers to each soldier&quot;s miserable and wretched condition as well as honourable scenes based on his first personal observations of field hospitals and camps during the Civil War. The Civil War was the background in which Whitman felt pity toward the severely wounded soldiers. Through suffering the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln, Whitman formed his pity which is evident in his realistic war poetry.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Like Whitman, Wilfred Owen wrote about his strong feelings of pity and the reality of war in his war poetry during the First World War. Because Owen witnessed the death of his soldiers, who died like cattle choked by the lethal gas, he denied any heroic scenes, and instead indicated the realistic, dreadful and terrible description. He was not so much an observer as a comrade with his soldiers on the Western Front Lines.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;From World War I, Owen describes the war fought by scared, individual soldiers as well as the unheroic war situation based on his first personal view in the parapets and trenches. The First World War throughly provides Owen with the discovery of intense pity and the harsh reality of war. It means that Owen&quot;s eternal and truthful pity is the core of his humanity toward his comrades in his war poetry.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Finally, Whitman and Owen demonstrated their truthful pity toward soldiers and comrades in their poetic works through their experiences of the brutal severity of war.