4Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
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THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN AMERICA LITERATURE
Sayyora Shuxrat kizi Abdug'aniyeva
Student at Chirchik State Pedagogical University
ABSTRACT
This article is about the writers who continued to create even during the Second World War. The works of writers who wrote poems and novels about the homeland and freedom in such dangerous times encouraged the population to be stronger.
Keywords: War,literature,writer,freedom,poem,drama
Introduction
In this thesis the writer has attempted to analyze the most representative novels of World War II with regard to content matter, styles, attitudes, values, language, and direction. In this survey forty-four novels concerning themes of the Second World War were studied. These novels represent the work of twenty-nine different writers.
Findings
Many more American poets wrote about the Second World War than about the First, though there is little of the heroic idealist rhetoric and personal drama of Alan Seeger or Joyce Kilmer. In poetry (unlike fiction), the moder-nist aesthetics that flowered between the wars are continued and developed. A good example is Randall Jarrell's five-line "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner". Serious ethical questioning, though rare, is revealed in Richard Eberhart's "The Fury of Aerial Bombardment"(1945). Likewise, the poems of Phyllis McGinley and William Meredith explore the ethical and religious aspects of the war. Karl Shapiro served in the Pacific theater and provides the most diverse insightsamong American poets in his collections about his conflict experience,Person, Place and Thing , V-Letter and Other Poems (1944), Trial ofa Poet (1947), and The Bourgeois Poet. His verse is highly polished yet unentimental about the war and soldiering, the tone is often one of irony, combined with matter-of-fact understatement. This quality also characterizes much of the work of Richard Wilbur, Kenneth Patchen. Among African-American poets, Langston Hughes, like many politically active intellectuals, followed events in Europe from the Spanish Civil Waron wards; his early poems about the Second World War, "Jim Crow's Last Stand"(1943)and "Will V-Day Be Me-Day Too?"(1944), voice his hope that the fight against fascism and its supremacist ideology will also help toabolish racism in the USA. His later verse -for
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Chirchik State Pedagogical University Current Issues of Modern Philology and Linguodidactics
Staatliche Pädagogische Universität Chirchik Aktuelle Fragen der modernen Philologie und Linguodidaktik
Chirchiq davlat pedagogika universiteti Zamonaviy filologiya va lingvodidaktikaning dolzarb masalalari
example, "Mother in War time," "War," "Official Notice, "and "Total War"12show considerably less optimism about the war's positive effect on these domestic issues. Another perspective on the same problem is provided by Gwendolyn Brooks's series of war sonnets, "Gay Chaps at the Bar"(from A Street in Bronzeville 1945), inspired by the V-letters of black soldiers who worry about how they will be received when they return home. A notable exception to the dominant American poetic discourse about the Second World War should not go unmentioned. 6). Of the great American drama-tists, Arthur Miller uses the war as a significant if not central structural element in his first successful play, All My Sons (1947), setting off business in terests against humanist ethics in a tragic family drama about an American factory-owner who knowingly delivers a batch of faulty airplane engines, causing the death of twenty-one pilots, including his elder son. In three of hislater plays, After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), and Playing for Time (1980). Conclusion
American writing about the Second World War reveals an impresive diver-sity of themes as well as discourses in all literary genres, traditional and experimental. The search for words which adequately present the war experience yields the most innovative results in the novels of the postmo-dernist writers, since they permit their readers -sometimes even force them -actively to participate in their characters' attempts to make sense, moreor less successfully, of events. The later texts of the 1960sand1970 particular include major works of the American post modernist movement and set new standards for depicting historical events in a globalized context. Poemlists writing in the traditional mimetic mode create characters with whom readers can identify, and often convincingly recreate "how it really was"-in so farasthisis possible.
REFERENCES
1. History of English and American literature book
2. July 2009 Carentan, "The Arrivistes"
3. Louis Simpson, "The Second World War: American writing"
4. Martin Gilbert, The Second World War. A Complete History
5. William Styron, Sophie's Choice (New York: Random House, 1979)
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