September 11 as a Terrorist Atack in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "History of the Airplane"
Zeena Younis Khalif Al-naeemi
English Department-College of Education For Women-Tikrit University
Faisal Abdul-Wahhab Hayder Al-Doori
English Department-College of Education For Women-Tikrit University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.1.2
Keywords: September 11, terrorist, attack, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Abstract
The September 11 attacks, also called the 9/11 attacks, the series of plane hijackings and suicide attacks perpetrated in 2001 by 19 militants connected with the Islamic extremist organizations Al-Qaeda against goals in the United States, are the deadliest terrorist attacks and an extraordinary event on American soil. The attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. caused widespread death and destruction and sparked a massive United States counter-terrorism efforts. This study aims to explore the main trend of contemporary American poetry that deals with the topic of the September 11 attacks and to show the impact of September 11, 2001, on contemporary American poets. Many contemporary American poets in the period following the attack on the Twin Towers were influenced by the September 11 attacks. Many of the American poets consider the September 11 attacks a terrorist attack, and these poets are the ones who believe in the theory of terrorism, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti is one of them.
