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The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

The author was giving a message then at the end of the poem it changes. He was giving the message that war happens to everybody and that they will have to go to war at some point in there life. The problem is that they don’t know the bourdon that it puts on the people that he has supported and been supported by until his son is sent of. He gets a totally different feeling when he doesn’t know what could happen to his son. He gets his message across by proving that every body has something to do with war wether they like it or not. Your parents might have been to war, if not them then your uncles, cousins, friends, or your neighbors(old men). Then if it isn’t them it could be your child who is going and the feeling is different, you lose the feeling of security when you cant protect your child. He

Sassoon uses colloquial language in his poem. The effect this has on the reader is that it makes him feel as if he is speaking to a friend who is venting a story to him. Moreover, the fact that the poem is written in the first person also has an effect on the reader. It makes the reader feel more emotionally attached to the soldier telling the story from beyond his grave. His use of enjambment fit in perfectly with the poem. It's as if the soldier is taking a breath at the end of each

The poem was written to show that war is a waste of human life as the soldier knows he will die one day as well as the men around him, just some quicker than others. This can be evident in stanza four of the poem: “I know I’ll join them somewhere, one day.” The language used is more casual than formative, this is effective as it shows the personal feelings and thoughts of the soldier during the time

“The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell is able to accomplish so many thing with so little lines-mainly through the use of metaphor and diction. It explains the terrors of wars in gruesome detail and explains the ways in which wars, in a sense “breed” and “birth” death. To some, this poem is seen as the ultimate poem of war, and rightly

The soldiers who had attended the war were shown to have died brutally, like “cattle”, yet when reaching the home front, it is seen that they are laid to rest in a much more civil and dignified manner. The concept of this can be seen as an extended metaphor throughout the entire poem, with the battle front seen as a world filled with violence, fear and destruction, where as the home front is perceived as a place marked by order and ritual, a civilized world. The second sonnet opens with “What candles may be held to speed them all?”, invoking a more softer and compassionate tone towards the audience, more specifically through Owen’s use of a rhetorical question. It captures the readers’ attention, engaging them to feel empathetic and notice the shift of energy from anger and bitterness to a sadder and more somber tone. Owen’s use of descriptive language, as simple as it seems, such as ‘boys’ and ‘girls’ provokes the audience to view the horrors of the war as if they had been placed onto children, because in reality the ‘men; who had signed themselves into war to fight in glory for their country had really only just been boys themselves.

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.

Suicide in the trenches were very common in World War I. Many depressed, or physically exhausted soldiers would resort to suicide to end their struggles. Siegfried Sassoon, a war veteran and English poet, wrote ‘Suicide in the Trenches,’ in an attempt to “avoid sentimentality and self-pity while describing the realities of war.” Published in February, 1918, he writes:

“Still” follows on Sassoon’s theme of death and terror. In this poem he talks about the awful things that soldiers had to see and smell and hear. He uses all the senses to try to describe what was happening during the fight. Then, the soldier is interrupted and forced to go fight and eventually die. The poem “Attack” is interesting because its story is in two parts. Before an event that happens, Siegfried Sassoon writes about “the wild purple of the glow'ring sun.” These quotes are used as if talking about a beautiful painting but, as it goes on, is setting up for the fear that is yet to come. The aftermath is eerie and much darker than the rest of the poem. The soldiers keep asking about forgetting the past and that is very strong in showing what they went through.

causes the poem to flow, and thus lightens up the dark and serious issue of war. The lines "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place." are easy to read; however, their meaning is extremely

The response the reader may feel after reading the text may be misconception, disconsolate, relatable, or sympathetic towards whoever it effected. These emotions are shown in the second and first stanzas, When is says “must the young blood for ever flow? Shall the wide wounds, no closing knows?” This conveys sympathy for the soldiers fighting at war, it forces reader to be positioned to imagine what it was like in the soldier’s shoes. The second example is “There are the days of all men’s tears—Tears like the endless drop that wears” This quote from the poem creates sadness.

‘They’ is a poem where Sassoon makes use of direct speech. This direct speech however is used in Sassoon’s favour to highlight the irony he wants to invoke; the hypocrisy of the church. When the bishop tries to justify war, the boys reply with the horrors of it. There is contrast between the heroic assumptions of the bishop and the soldiers’ reality of war portrayed by the ‘boys’ which undermines the bishop’s statement. Such comments made by these ‘boys’ which represent the soldiers are comments on other soldiers who ‘lost both his legs’, ‘stone blind’ and ‘shot through the lungs’. This type of battlefield imagery elicits pity for the soldiers. Meanwhile, the last line stated by the bishop points out the hypocrisy of the bishop with irony and satire. The poem shows pity for both the soldiers while also provoking pity from the reader in the fact that people believe the bishops who prompt men to go to war in the name of

When it came time to enlist in the war, young men were ecstatic about becoming heroes by the act of serving their country. Although, in reality these men did not know the consequences that came with their life changing decision to go into combat. Sassoon’s “Suicide in the Trenches” exposes the psychological issues that overwhelmed one soldier in particular, but as the reader, it is clear that the feelings described belong to any soldier that ever felt the wrath of the war. The first stanza paints a picture of a soldier who knows nothing of death or destruction. Line number three, specifically, reads “slept soundly through the lonesome dark” (Suicide in the Trenches). This shows that prior to the war, this soldier felt comfortable and safe within the walls of his home and most importantly, he felt safe within himself. The last mention of him is in the second stanza where it is revealed that he committed suicide. The last stanza could resemble a call of action. The narrator calls the civilians

The two poems ‘The Hero’ and ‘Does It Matter?’ best represent the horror and futility or the war. The two poems show Siegfried Sassoon’s view on war and how useless it is and also displays the consequences of war for the ones who made it back home. The poems aim to make the audience feel guilt and educate them about the reality of the war.

Siegfried Sassoon is one of the most famous of all the war poets. He was a soldier in WWI and his poem is based on his own experience in the war. “Attack” and “Suicide in the trenches”, both poems describe sense of horror and sympathy for the soldiers, death and criticism supporter of the war.