The poets during the Second World War were drastically different fromthose Georgian poets of the First World War. In place of high-soundingpatriotism and idealism, this generation of poets, prepared by the messages ofdisillusion and despair sent by modernist writers, expressed their tiredness ofand disgust at the horrors and absurdities of the war. Also, the Second WorldWar poets formed no particular subgenre in literary history, partly because,as Keith Douglas (1920-1944) put it,hell cannot be let loose twice and almost all that a modern poet on active service is inspired to write, would betautological to what had been described by the Great War Poets.
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