The Immortal Conflict between History and Poetry in Selected English Modern Poems
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol55.Iss1.3150Keywords:
history, truth, poetry, literary eras, facts, emotionsAbstract
The conflict between history and poetry exists since the ancient times of Plato and Aristotle till later ages. Controversy accompanies such a conflict throughout the ages. Therefore, the present paper delves deep into how poetry reveals the truth of the historical events or the stories of the past. The present paper aims to examine the role of the poet as a historian, how the poets present these historical events truthfully, and how these poems preserve their literary identity. Two English poems are selected from the Modern Era (1900s-1940s), Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” in (1912) and Rudyard Kipling’s “Mesopotamia” in (1917).
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