Why the Early 20 th Century poems are so depressing

2. Why the Early 20th Century poems are so depressing

4. duration of war • size of fighting forces • number of casualties • number of countries involved • proportion of combatants to total population

5. War in the 20th Century (within Europe alone) far exceeds the violence, destruction and death of all of the conflicts of the preceding eight centuries combined.

8. more food available • lower food prices • more people starving

9. Second World War First World War Korean War Chinese Civil War Vietnam War Iran-Iraq War Russian Civil War Chinese Civil War French Indochina Mexican Revolution Spanish Civil War French-Algerian War Soviet War in Afghanistan Russo-Japanese War Riffian War First Sudanese Civil War Russo-Polish War Biafran War Chaco War Abyssinian War Major 20th Century wars

10. 1899–1901: The Boxer Rebellion 1903: The Ilinden Uprising of the Macedonians in the Ottoman Empire 1904: A liberal revolution in Paraguay 1905: The failed bourgeois-liberal revolution against Tsar Nicholas II in Russia 1905–1906: The Persian/Iranian constitutional revolution 1905–1906: The MajiMaji Rebellion in German East Africa 1907: The Romanian Peasants' Revolt 1908: The Young Turk Revolution 1910-1920: The Mexican Revolution 1910: The republican revolution in Portugal 1910–1911: The Sokehs Rebellion erupts in German-ruled Micronesia 1911: The Xinhai Revolution of the Republic of China 1914: The Ten Days War in Colorado, USA 1914: The Boer Revolt against the British in South Africa 1915: The Armenian Revolt in city of Van against the Ottomans in Turkey 1916: The Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland 1916: An anti-French uprising in Algeria 1916: The Central Asian Revolt 1916–1917: The Tuareg rebellion in northern Niger. 1916–1918: The Arab Revolt from the Ottoman Empire. 1916–1923: The Irish War of Independence 1916–1947: Gandhi's struggle against the British for Indian Independence 1917: The French Army Mutinies 1917: The February Revolution overthrows Tsar Nicholas II in Russia. 1917: The Green Corn Rebellion takes place in rural Oklahoma 1917: The October Revolution in Russia: Bolshevik seizure of power 1918: The Finnish Civil War 1918: The Christmas Uprising in Montenegro 1918: The Wilhelmshaven mutiny 1918: The German Revolution overthrows the Kaiser 1918–1919: A wave of strikes and student unrest shakes Peru 1918–1919: The Greater Poland Uprising 1918–1920: The Georgian-Ossetian conflict 1918–1921: The Ukrainian Revolution 1918–1922: The Third Russian Revolution 1918–1931: The Basmachi Revolt in Central Asia 1919–1920: The Euphrates Revolt in Iraq List of revolutions in only the first half of the 20th Century

11. 1919–1921: The Tambov Rebellion in Soviet Union • 1919–1921: The Silesian Uprisings of the ethnic Poles • 1919–1922: The Turkish War of Independence • 1919: The German Revolution • 1919: A revolution in Hungary • 1920: The Pitchfork Uprising in what is today Tatarstan • 1920–1947: Mohammad Ali Jinnah's struggle for a separate state for the Muslims of India • 1920–1922: Gandhi led Non-cooperation movement • 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, USA • 1921: The Kronstadt rebellion of Soviet sailors against the government • 1921–1923: The Yakut Revolt • 1921–1924: A revolution in (Outer) Mongolia • 1922–1923: The Irish Civil War • 1923: The overthrow of the Ottoman Empire • 1923: The Klaipėda Revolt in the Memel territory in Germany • 1924–1927: The Sheikh Said Rebellion • 1925: The July Revolution in Ecuador • 1925–1927: The Syrian Revolution • 1926: The National Revolution in Portugal • 1926–1929: The Cristero War in Mexico • 1926–1927: The first PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) rebellion • 1927–1931: The Kurdish Rebellion against Turkey • 1927–1933: A rebellion against the United States presence in Nicaragua • 1930: The Brazilian Revolution of 1930 • 1930: The Salt Satyagraha, a campaign in colonial India. • 1932: The Constitutionalist Revolution in Brazil • 1932: The Aprista revolt in Trujillo, Peru • 1932: The Siamese coup d'état of 1932 in Thailand • 1933: The popular revolution against Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado • 1934: In October, workers revolution in the Spanish regions of Asturias and Catalonia, Spain • 1936: The Febrerista Revolution in Paraguay. • 1936: Polish insurgent at a Warsaw Uprising barricade • 1936: The Spanish Civil War, leading to the Spanish Revolution • 1936–1939: A period of so-called "military socialism" in Bolivia • 1937–1938: The Dersim Rebellion in modern Turkey • 1937: The "Jornadas de Mayo", a workers' revolution in Catalonia, Spain

12. 1938–1948: The Zionist Revolution in Palestine • 1940–1944: The Insurgency in Chechnya • 1941: The June Uprising against the Soviet Union in Lithuania • 1941–1945: Yugoslav People's Liberation War • 1942: Sri Lankan soldiers ignite the Cocos Islands Mutiny • 1942: The destruction of the German garrison in Lenin • 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising • 1943: The uprising at Treblinka extermination camp • 1943: The uprising at Sobibór extermination camp • 1944: The Guatemalan Revolution • 1944: The Warsaw Uprising • 1944: The Paris Uprising staged by the French Resistance against the German Paris garrison • 1944: The Slovak National Uprising against Nazi Germany • 1944: The uprising at Auschwitz extermination camp • 1944–1947: A Communist-friendly government installed in Bulgaria following the Soviet invasion. • 1944: Communists declared the People's Republic of Albania in January 1946 • 1944–1949: The Greek Civil War • 1944–1965: The Forest Brothers Rebellion in Baltic states against Soviet Union. • 1945–1949: The Indonesian National Revolution • 1945: The Prague uprising against German occupation • 1945: The August Revolution in Vietnam • 1945: A democratic revolution in Venezuela • 1946: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny • 1947: Civil war broke out in Paraguay • 1946–1951: The Telengana Rebellion in Hyderabad State, India • 1947–1952: The Albanian Subversion in Communist-ruled Albania • 1947: The 228 Massacre in Taiwan • 1948: Following the liberation of Korea, Marxist former guerrillas take over Korea • 1948–1960: The Malayan Emergency • 1949: The Communist-led Chinese Revolution establishes the People's Republic of China • 1950: The Jayuya revolt in Puerto Rico • 1954–1962: The Algerian War of Independence

13. The following are actual photos of U.S. nuclear bomb tests in the 20th Century

21. Nagasaki – before and after 11 miles up from ground zero The creation of the world’s most destructive weapon and its use at the end of World War II: The atomic bomb

22. The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was only 4/10,000 (four ten thousandths) the explosive magnitude of the largest modern nuclear bomb.

23. *Approximate Deaths by War and Oppression in the 20th Century alone Genocide and Tyranny: 83,000,000 Military Deaths in War: 42,000,000 Civilian Deaths in War: 19,000,000 Man-made Famine: 44,000,000 • TOTAL: • 188,000,000 (This is over fivetimes the population of California.) *Matthew White, Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century, 2001

24. Approximately 4,126,000,000 people have died during the 20th century from all causes. • If man-mademegadeaths account for 188 million of them, then one out of every 22 human deaths during the 20th Century has been caused by fellow human beings.

25. These are the reasons why the British and Irish poets of the 20th Century tended to be negative and rather depressing with the subject matter of their poetry.