Mental Health Crisis Qua the Impact of World Wars in Alfred Hayes' Three Selected Poems: A Semiotic Analysis

Abstract

This article moots mental health crisis qua the impact of World Wars in Alfred Hayes three selected poems: Singleman (1936), The Shrunken Head (1948), and The Slaughter-House (1943). This research utilizes Michael Riffaterres Semiotics of Poetry theory to dissect the purport and significance of the selected poems and wields some contentions (UNICEF, SAMHSA, Mann, Conner, DeMeester, Afridi, and Larson) and chronicle qua hypogram to limn mental health crisis qua the impact of World Wars. Qualitative research marks this study. This kind of research employs non-numerical data and dissection. The upshot of this probe divulges that these runes enunciate mental health crisis qua the yield of the fettle of ere war British colony's identification forfeit.