August stramm war grave analysis group

Erschienen in: Forum for Modern Language Studies ; 51 (2015), 4. - S. 429-444 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqv050 Forum for Modern Language Studies Vol. , No. , doi: ./fmls/cqv A DEAD POETS’ SOCIETY: RUPERT BROOKE’S AND AUGUST STRAMM’S WA R P O E M S SILVIA MERGENTHAL ABSTRACT Among the millions of casualties of World War I, there were hundreds of poets, some of them quite well known when they enlisted, while others only found – and tragically lost – their literary voices during the war.

It is the latter group of poets who are often regarded as ‘War Poets’ proper – War Poets, moreover, whose poems appear to express distinctly anti-war attitudes. Two of the most famous literary casualties of  were Rupert Brooke and August Stramm. This article will discuss some of their war poems and will use these poems to illustrate the enormous formal and thematic range war poetry can, and does, cov