2019.
This essay examines the modernist poetics of Eliot, H. D., Pound during the Second World War. The notion of war poetry was dealt with by drawing Eliot’s argument about war poetry in detail. While Eliot’s Four Quartets , H.D.’s Trilogy and Pound’s Pisan Cantos are generally regarded as war poetry, there has not been the research on the relationships between their works of poems. Four Quartets and Trilogy are mainly focused on Christianity, and these war poems are rigorously written in the London Blitz. Even though Pisan Cantos is war poems about failure of Fascism, Pound reveals his lyric self reminiscent of his early days with H.D. as Dryad in Pennsylvania. Discussing war poetry of these three modernist poets, I suggest that my essay would further the interrelated study of modernist poets such as Eliot, Pound, and H.D.