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Argue whether the poetry/text presents the author as pilgrim or as tourist on a wartime journey
The distinction between the tourist and the pilgrim is one that invariably arises when analyzing texts that address war. While it is common for the hero (or author) to discuss war as a theme, a distinction must be made with regard to the way in which the author relates to the war and to the soldiers. In poems where the hero embarks on a journey, his journey can take the shape of either a pilgrimage or a simple tourist trip. Drawing from Donnelly's categorization involving the tourist vs. The pilgrim, this paper analyzes a series of war poems and texts that assume the form of either a pilgrimage or a tourist journey. The pilgrimage refers to an internal journey that is invested in the pilgrimage of war. The hero is profoundly affected by the pilgrimage, and the journey itself is given equal emphasis as the arrival. Finally, the pilgrim achieves a sense of community. Alternately, the tourist journey involves the inverse, with a more individualistic (but less introspective) experience. For the tourist, the arrival is important while the journey is not, and there is little emphasis on the pilgrimage of war. The tourist is not directly affected by the pilgrimage and he achieves no community. This paper does not argue that one form is superior to the other, and instead classifies the World War One and World War Two poems into one of the two forms.
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