World War One Research Trip
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Hello, my name is Taylor Nutt. I am a junior English major at Texas A&M University, and have recently been accepted into a new competitive joint program between A&M's Research Scholars organization and Jordan Fellowship. This program allows me to travel overseas for personal research project, then guides this research into an undergraduate thesis. This research will give me a leg up on compeition for Graduate program, and give me experience in researching that will help me in my future career/school goals. My research will be on the poets/writers who were British soldiers during World War One, specifically focusing on the lesser known poets. My purpose is to survey silence within the poetic structure and syntax, and then analyze it from a psychological context – meaning, how this silence represents their mentality or mental state. The silence I will be focusing on takes many forms and arises in many ways: speechlessness, shock, productive, repression, forced, or inability.
World War I is the first modern war. The mass population, especially soldiers, have never witnessed or experienced anything like this, thus experiences in this war scarred people in ways never noticed or witnessed before: shell shock, PTSD, muteness, etc. There were 32 million soldier causalities and 17 million soldier deaths in this war, many only leaving behind their writings and poems. This is why I believe it is important to continue studying their work: so we can understand them, what they have been through, and remember them and their sacrifice.
I will be researching this through exploring and visiting monuments, memorials, graves, battlefields, and trenches. Additionally, I will be studying their works, manuscripts, scholarly journals, and interviewing professionals who have spent their lives studying this. My family and I are working on coming up with some funds, but help would be greatly appreciated. This money would be going to additional necessary costs. Anything that you can contribute, $1, $5, or even $10, would really help fund this important research. Thank you so much for your time. For specific details or questions, please contact me at: [email redacted].
Absolution
BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes
Till beauty shines in all that we can see.
War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise,
And, fighting for our freedom, we are free.
Horror of wounds and anger at the foe,
And loss of things desired; all these must pass.
We are the happy legion, for we know
Time's but a golden wind that shakes the grass.
There was an hour when we were loth to part
From life we longed to share no less than others.
Now, having claimed this heritage of heart,
What need we more, my comrades and my brothers?
From the Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248208
World War I is the first modern war. The mass population, especially soldiers, have never witnessed or experienced anything like this, thus experiences in this war scarred people in ways never noticed or witnessed before: shell shock, PTSD, muteness, etc. There were 32 million soldier causalities and 17 million soldier deaths in this war, many only leaving behind their writings and poems. This is why I believe it is important to continue studying their work: so we can understand them, what they have been through, and remember them and their sacrifice.
I will be researching this through exploring and visiting monuments, memorials, graves, battlefields, and trenches. Additionally, I will be studying their works, manuscripts, scholarly journals, and interviewing professionals who have spent their lives studying this. My family and I are working on coming up with some funds, but help would be greatly appreciated. This money would be going to additional necessary costs. Anything that you can contribute, $1, $5, or even $10, would really help fund this important research. Thank you so much for your time. For specific details or questions, please contact me at: [email redacted].
Absolution
BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
The anguish of the earth absolves our eyes
Till beauty shines in all that we can see.
War is our scourge; yet war has made us wise,
And, fighting for our freedom, we are free.
Horror of wounds and anger at the foe,
And loss of things desired; all these must pass.
We are the happy legion, for we know
Time's but a golden wind that shakes the grass.
There was an hour when we were loth to part
From life we longed to share no less than others.
Now, having claimed this heritage of heart,
What need we more, my comrades and my brothers?
From the Poetry Foundation: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/248208
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Taylor Nutt
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Houston, TX
