In fact, each season of angst and anxiety in the timelines of various societies has handed down to generations its own poetic manifestations. Through poetry, individual and collective emotions merge to produce the memories of our times that can reach future generations as histories of now. Some scholars classify such poems as part of a genre called war literature. This genre rose to prominence after the Great War, a major and life-changing event in the history of the 20th Century that occurred a century ago and is commonly known as The First World War (1914-1918). Besides news of fresh cemeteries across the world, this war atmosphere reaches our ears in normal medical words now turned sinister.

Source: The Star April 10, 2020 00:22 UTC