Abstract: This article investigates the way Alan Dugan criticizes wars since he was a soldier during World War II. Dugan who does not write a Rupert Brooke-like war verse paves the way to a new unconventional war poetry that criticizes wars and politics instead of praising the role of his country and magnifying the traditional concepts of war like masculinity, heroism, and patriotism. Dugan alludes to old myths in a way that distorts their originality in order to shed lights on the current issues of wars. He finds that masculinity does not lie in killing others and shedding their bloods, and heroism does not settle in the defeat of the enemy.
Keyword: Intertextuality, Parody, Myth, American War Poetry.
Title: Intertextuality for The Sake Of Parody in Alan Dugan’s War Poetry
Author: Mohamed A. Yacoub
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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