How is the theme of war treated throughout the 1920-1945 literary period?Highlight how changing social and cultural aspects influence the...

As consistent with modernist writing, I think that war was
seen as an incomplete entity.  This is in stark opposition to what governments and
social orders constructed war.  War was seen by states as a means to resolve problems as
well as feeding the strength of the government.  In war, there could be little room for
dissent and, as nations plunged into war, the spirit of questioning authority
disappeared.  As ruling political orders sought to strengthen and bolster the Status
Quo, modernist writers and thinkers saw their function as quite the opposite.  Viewing
fragmentation and disunity where the opposite were being preached, war was treated in
the works of the Modernists as something that embodied the sense of loss and disunity
that was a part of consciousness.  We can see this, most notably, in the works of Pound
and Yeats, modernist writers who could not conceive of consciousness in the totalizing
and direct manner that governments and social orders were advocating at the
time.