Date of Award
1986
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Pearce, Howard D.
Abstract
The war poetry of Randall Jarrell reflects themes found in the war poetry of Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy. The period represented ranges from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II. Hardy wrote about five wars and experienced four in his lifetime; Whitman experienced the American Civil War; and Jarrell experienced World War II. Nature, often seen by the poets as "wounded" and sometimes complementary to war, is important to the poets, who incorporated her as healer, as absorber of the dead, and as a symbolic background for war. The three poets wrote about people in war. Often the soldiers were helpless child victims who withstood the rigors of the military by establishing camaraderie or escaping through dreams and death. Advancing technology brought war, with its machinery and informational immediacy, close to civilians, affecting them and their soldiers as never before.
Extent
126 p.
Recommended Citation
KILPATRICK, DIANA D., "WAR POETRY: WHITMAN, HARDY, AND JARRELL" (1986). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1980 - 1989. 499.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_3/499
Identifier
FADT14308
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters