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THE DUALISTIC OUTLOOK IN SASSOON’S “SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES” AND OWEN’S “STRANGE MEETING”

    1 Author(s):  HOSSEIN OMIDI

Vol -  6, Issue- 2 ,         Page(s) : 153 - 160  (2015 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

As a matter of fact, the soldier poets Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967) had the firsthand experience and actual knowledge of what war can do, both to the body and to the psyche.Concerning Sassoon and Owen’s dualistic outlook or ambivalent approach toward the whole universe which was mostly because of their direct involvement in the World War One, from one hand, they rebel against destiny and the organisation of the universe, then again, both of them, at the end, return to them and show a sort of patience and tolerance. Consistent with Freudian psychoanalytic notions of substitutions and replacements, ambivalence demonstrated in their poetry such as Sassoon’s “Suicide in the trenches” and Owen’s “Strange Meeting” appears to be like the child-father love-hatred relationship and fight to own/attract the mother.

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