Campbell, James. “Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism.” New Literary History, vol. 30, no. 1, 1999, pp. 203–15, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20057530. Accessed 8 Apr. 2022.
The poem Dulce Et Decorum Est was one of the first poems to shine a negative light on the war. The name of the poem is an old British saying that translates to it is “sweet and fitting to die for one's country” and while the poem uses that name it describes the horrors that went on during World War 1. This source covers how physically being in the war and experiencing combat should come before writing anything regarding the experience of it. In that time period, most of what was written about the war were total propaganda saying that it would be like a vacation, but this poem told the truth about what it was like to physically be in the war. This thoroughly relates because it shows the horrors of man.
“the knowledge of combat is a prerequisite for the production of literacy that adequately deals with war.”(Combat Gnosticism: The Ideology of First World War Poetry Criticism, Hopkins, 204)
Staff, Harriet. “Margaret Atwood Illuminates the Life of Canadian...” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/2013/12/margaret-atwood-illuminates-the-life-of-canadian-poet-emily-pauline-johnson.
This source covers the opera that Margaret Atwood wrote about Pauline Johnson. It gives insight into the way that Pauline and her sister Eva lived and what they believed in. It also helps to have someone at the level that Margaret Atwood is to give their opinion and insight on her life. It tells the reader about what connected Pauline to nature, her heritage as a native woman did in fact allow her to feel that connection to nature. This relates to my thesis because it displays why she would write a piece so heavily connected to the beauty of nature.
“What interested me was that it was this rather convoluted story involving two sisters, Eva and Pauline, and they had very different ideas about how to live in the world,” (Margaret Atwood Illuminates the Life of Canadian Poet, Emily Pauline Johnson, Harriet Staff)
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