Keith Douglas Context
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- Created on: 15-05-19 11:44
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- Keith Douglas
- Childhood
- Mother was terminally ill
- parents divorced, father stayed in Wales for work
- Douglas was hurt that his father made no effort to communicate
- Lonely childhood
- Lots of time for imagination
- Poetry
- Best known for describing his experience in North Africa
- Considered war the most relevant topic of the time
- Three stages of poems ; teenager, Oxford and war
- Grim, jarring tone to reflect horros of war
- Changed from emotive language to juxtaposition during war
- Military service
- Fought in WW2
- Palestine, Cairo, North Africa and Normandy
- Took part in the D-Day attaacks at Normandy
- Died in action during D-Day attacks
- Vergissmeinicht
- Displays the horrors of WW2
- He was a tank commander in North Africa
- Childhood
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