John Brown is a victim of vain glory in a war. Discuss this statement with reference to the poem "John Brown". [15 Marks]
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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman was an American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs.
John Berryman grew up as ordinary as his given name. That is, until the age of 12, when his father committed suicide, shooting himself right outside of John's bedroom window. Such a horrific event permanently darkened John's psyche and would eventually show up in much of his poetry. His mother quickly remarried to their landlord, with whom she'd apparently been having an affair, and moved the family north to New York. John later took the name Berryman, after his stepfather.
In 1939, Berryman graduated from Columbia, solidifying a serious passion for poetry, and then moved to school in Cambridge, England, on a Kellett Fellowship. While in Cambridge, he met such famous poets as W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas. He eventually returned to the states and began to teach, hired by such prestigious schools like Harvard and Princeton. He also grew deeply involved in researching and writing literature.
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Bob Dylan's John brown depicts how vainly war is glorified and what consequences it has. John Brown's mother associates war with heroism and glory. she is no victim here . she seems to be unaware of fatal consequences of war. the goal here is to please the soldier's mother's vanity, she is not preoccupied with the welfare of her son , but instead boasts to her neighbours.at last, she has the medals to decorate her wall but she seems to have lost her son. war is thus, nothing but a failure of humanity.
In war, nobody wins , everyone loses.