Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1828 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Against the Consoling Manner
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The idea
War poetry of this kind sets itself against the elevated diction earlier centuries used for battle. Unit sixteen's epic treated war as a subject for heroes; Owen's generation refused that vocabulary, and the refusal is the argument.
In practice
The refusal of the elevated manner.
Where people slip
Unit sixteen's epic is what it refuses.
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