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Abstract
This thesis is a study of Keith Douglas and Sidney Keyes as two of the best known poets of the second World War. It is divided into six Chapters and a Bibliography. Chapter I is about the early concerns of both poets. Chapter II is about war as a great turning point in their literary career. Chapter III is about their preoccupation with the idea and meaning of death. Chapter IV is about the place and its people in their poetry. Chapter V is about their language and technique. Chapter VI is a conclusion and assessment. This study shows that Douglas?s poetry is in the line of the antiwar poets: Owen, Sassoon and Rosenberg, and that he echoed, or even imitated them, whereas Sidney Keyes is the antithesis of him, a prowar poet. The thesis refutes the concept of heroism held by Sidney Keyes and some other aristocratic warriors. It shows that Keyes?s ideas are abstract and inapplicable to modern war, and that his preoccupation with death is psychological. There is a lot of comparison between the two poets in concept, intention, technique and style, proving in the end the superiority of Douglas over Keyes. In evaluation Douglas is taken as a major poet whereas Keyes is a minor one.