Disillusionment, Confinement and Liberation in Stephen Spender's Poetry

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This research, entitled "Disillusionment, Confinement and Liberation in Stephen Spender's Poetry", explores and analyses the three main phases of development in Stephen Spender's Poetry: disillusionment, confinement and liberation.
In the first of these, that of disillusionment, the research focuses on the poet's discovery of the reality about the world around him at the time of war and how this caused the poet to be horror-struck.
In discussing the second phase, that of confinement, the research explores the most important images of confinement as revealed in Spender's poetry and the poet's sense of being helplessly confined.
The third phase shows how the poet decided to free his soul and fly to the world of the sky, beyond the barriers of time and place.