Representations of the 1918 Pandemic in poetry
The Spanish flu does not have a powerful hold on cultural memory. As an illness, it erases the collective suffering; as a virus, it offers a degenerate body. This essay will explore representations of the 1918 pandemic in poetry by using three poems: Voigt's Kyrie, Eliot’s The Wasteland and W...
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| Language: | English |
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University College of Medical Sciences
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Research and Humanities in Medical Education |
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| Online Access: | https://www.rhime.in/ojs/index.php/rhime/article/view/409 |