Abstract

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War poetry is the literary achievement of those poets who actually participated in war, as soldier-poets, or witnessed the horrors and the catastrophes of war in one way or another. They share the same concern about battlefields and trenches as a main core and source of inspiration of their poetry. Modes of writings about war were practiced by those poets; however, they hardly mentioned the effect of war on the soldiers' families in their poetry. This paper turns attention to the depiction of the mother and her reaction over the loss of her beloved son in two poems from different literary periods. The portrayal of the mother, by both poets, proves similarity despite differences in exposition. The poems are: Siegfried Sassoon's poem The Hero and Walt Whitman's poem come up from the fields father. Each poet portrays the worries and the sorrow of the mother after receiving the death letter. The paper does not depict a mother-son relationship but depicts the calamity of war focusing on the most beloved one.