{"title":"Dylan Thomas’s “Poem in October”: A Parody of Poetic Tradition","authors":"S. Bharadwaj","doi":"10.20431/2347-3134.0709004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The image of Wilfred Owen as ―fragile and luminous‖ grown ―by pain and labour‖ ( Contemporary Verse 250) that the poets of the thirties adore and the Second World War poet ―conscious of his desires and needs and flesh that rise and fall‖ lampoons as ―poor bare forked animal,‖ ―a machinery of death and slavery‖ (CV ) and ―forgets ... his hatred of war‖ has been steadily revivified by Sidney Keyes, the heroic war poet, ―those cries and wings surprise our surest act‖ (Modern Verse 421). Keyes celebrates the sensibility of Owen amidst the poets of insensitivity:","PeriodicalId":137524,"journal":{"name":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20431/2347-3134.0709004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The image of Wilfred Owen as ―fragile and luminous‖ grown ―by pain and labour‖ ( Contemporary Verse 250) that the poets of the thirties adore and the Second World War poet ―conscious of his desires and needs and flesh that rise and fall‖ lampoons as ―poor bare forked animal,‖ ―a machinery of death and slavery‖ (CV ) and ―forgets ... his hatred of war‖ has been steadily revivified by Sidney Keyes, the heroic war poet, ―those cries and wings surprise our surest act‖ (Modern Verse 421). Keyes celebrates the sensibility of Owen amidst the poets of insensitivity: