Denunciation of institutionalized violence : a critical reading on Randall Jarrell's

Abstract

The research entitled ―Denunciation of Institutionalized Violence: A Critical Reading on Randall Jarrell‘s War Poems‖ explores the resistance against power politics of State violence in Jarrell‘s war poems in the light of New Historicism. His poems are impregnated with the conscience of condemnation, revolt and resistance for the liberation and freedom of individuals who are forcefully pushed in to the battlefield owing to the excessive administrative power exercised by modern technological bureaucratic State. Hence, his poems function to awake consciousness of resistance in the mind of the soldiers who are physically wounded and psychologically agonized in order to resist the State violence. Therefore, Jarrell has employed poetry as a dynamic location for staging condemnation against the most oppressive features of modern hegemonic State. However, his resistance carries a deep political vision that is to achieve liberation, freedom and justice for the victimized warriors or individuals.