History in Poetry and Truth in Selected American Poems of the Modern Era
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol54.Iss2.3149Keywords:
history, truth, poetry, literary eras, facts, emotions.Abstract
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 American poems are selected from the Modern Era (1900s-1940s), Katharine Rolston Fisher’s “Alice Paul” in (1918) and Robinson Jeffers’s “Moon and Five Planets” in (1940).
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