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![]() Thus Robert Nichols proclaimed in 'The Day's March': 2 The traditional commonplace metaphors gained new life from the feeling that the sickly sluggishness and suicidal subversionism of the Decadent Movement and the Fin de Siècle had to be overcome: a sick organism must be radically purged, foul weather must be cleared by a purifying thunderstorm or "stahlgewitter", wintry stagnation must be broken up to yield to regenerative vitality. The poets Rupert Brooke, Robert Nichols, Julian Grenfell, and Charles Sorley hailed the War as a renewal and purification, in time-hallowed terms and forms. The First World War or Great War was the first military conflict in history that evoked the widest possible spectrum of literary responses 1, ranging from enthusiastic patriotic affirmation to disillusioned reductio ad absurdum. ![]() ![]() WAR POETRY: WHERE DEATH BECOMES ABSURD AND LIFE ABSURDERĭEATH BECOMES ABSURD AND LIFE ABSURDER": LITERARY
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