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"Over the last hill": Wilfred Owen's "Spring Offensive"
Laure-helene Anthony-gerroldtsubject
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureWar poetryWilfred Owen[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureSensationFranceComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSdescription
Being the poet’s last completed piece, “Spring Offensive” makes France Wilfred Owen’s last poetic landscape. The article explores the ways in which “Spring Offensive” continuously crosses and blurs the borders between the French landscape and the poet’s English heritage; it also emphasizes the sensuousness of the landscape and of the war experience, so that the bodies of the soldiers and nature fuse and interact. “Spring Offensive” thus comes to reflect Owen’s search for balance, a search of which the French landscape becomes the natural yet symbolic representation.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-31 |