{"id":1473,"date":"2025-11-25T01:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:31:35","slug":"to-the-prussians-of-england-not-so-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1473","title":{"rendered":"To the Prussians of England &amp; Not So Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a quick comparison between one of our poems and a different text from earlier in the semester \ud83d\ude42 While reading <em>To the Prussians of England<\/em> by Gurney, what struck me most was the poem\u2019s confrontational directness. The title already stages this tension\u2014addressed to the \u201cPrussians of England\u201d rather than merely describing them\u2014while the poem\u2019s movement between the accusatory \u201cyou\u201d and the collective \u201cus\u201d and \u201cwe\u201d aligns the speaker with the soldiers at the front and exposes the hypocrisy of those who glorify the war from afar. This rhetorical pressure immediately reminded me of the tonal force Nellie uses in <em>Not So Quiet<\/em> when she condemns her mother and Mrs. Evans-Mawnington, women who embody the home-front ideologies that demand sacrifice without understanding its cost. Both Gurney and Nellie deploy direct address as a deliberate counter to the sanitized language of wartime patriotism; they transform private anger into public accusation. I feel that their bluntness collapses the supposedly \u201ccomfortable\u201d distance that many non-combatant works\u2014or simply the era\u2019s propaganda\u2014depend on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, I just wanted to share a quick comparison between one of our poems and a different text from earlier in the semester \ud83d\ude42 While reading To the Prussians of England by Gurney, what struck me most was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47,382,400],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-not-so-quiet","tag-poems","tag-to-the-prussians-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}