Postwar Realism I

Postwar British Poetry

   The British Poetry is a good movement because the poets started to express what they thought in their poems. The British were affected a lot during war because the consequences of the war were awfull and a lot of people and also writers lived it and expressed it on their works such as Philip Larkin, you can read in his poem how he writes with so much hate and resentment. The poem of "This Be the Verse". This poem represent how bad was the situation after war and about who was talking Philip Larkin. The poems may not have the better rhymes and may not be the best in technique but they're really good because they express what they want to and people felt identify with them. 

Mass Observation

   This project was kind of insane. I think the British community was afraid of people planning something else and also I think their intention were to know the feelings and the mood of society after war.  But doing this was a crazy way to achieve it, no one likes to be spied and less if the material is going to be published. This was another mark of the war but Tom Harrison, Charles Medge, Humphrey  Jennings didn't gave a good idea but instead of that each of one work alone. Charles Medge did his poems about the society and this project and people loved it and I love this stanza "This poem will be you if you will. So let it". And Jennings unfortunately died when he was searching for a place to record but he died doing his job! 

This poem will be you if you will. So let it. 
I do not want you to stand still to get it. 
You will have it if you go high-speed (OLTP, 127)