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Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) has gained a wide recognition as a controversially talented Anglo- Jewish poet very recently. The revival of interest in Rosenberg and his poetry rests on his art as well as his cultural and ideological convictions. Hence, critics include him among the most important poets of twentieth century England. Of all the World War I poets, he stands out as the most revolutionary and the nearest to the modernist and postmodernist modes. It remains after all that his achievement as a war poet has to do with the fact that he has expressed his experience of war rather than of the war act itself. He has manipulated, in addition, that experience artistically. By transcending the historical context itself to present his own experience of war, Rosenberg has managed, to a large measure, to widen the scope of the lyric form by means of attributing to it an epic dimension. Unlike his contemporaries who endeavored to demythologize war, Rosenberg was strongly willing to establish for himself a strategy of difference by means of mythologizing his determinist Hebrew war vision. Depth and grandeur are out products of his mastery as a myth- maker. The objective of this study is to examine and analyze Myth-making in Rosenberg’s poetry. His fascination with transforming his cultural convictions into political ideologies in terms of the mythical technique, it is observed, is deliberately restricted to pre-Christian patterns of reference- Hebrew and classical as well. Old Testament stories, Jewish history and motifs as well as ancient Greek mythical patterns of reference inspired, in this context, Rosenberg's technical mastery. So, in his deliberate endeavor to reconcile art to ideology, Rosenberg seeks inspiration in the very ancient sources. Accordingly, Rosenberg's poetry is reconsidered and reinterpreted throughout the current study in terms of the cultural and ideological contexts that informed its war vision and the patterns of references that are deliberately and adroitly textured into this war vision itself.
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