Siegfried Sassoon

“Suicide in the trenches” written by Siegfried Sassoon describes the harsh experiences in the trenches and how many soldiers became depressed. Sassoon was an officer who earned a military cross after carrying a wounded soldier through enemy’s crossfire. He fought in many battles until 1917 when he was hospitalised due to Shellshock. Sassoon criticized the political leaders who sent young men off to die in huge battles that seemed pointless, and while Sassoon was in Hospital he opposed the war by

(7). A week later, “the soldiers [the general] smiled at are most of ‘em dead” (3). The succinctness and simplicity of the poem echoes the ease with which men died in war. So too, Wilfred Owen, renowned war poet and contemporary and mentee of Siegfried Sassoon, replicates his mentor’s view on the prolific lose of life in war, asking in his poem, “Anthem of Doomed Youth,” “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” (1). To dispel the propagated glory and honor associated with death in war, in

In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon composed the sonnet “Glory of Women” during the first World War, an important piece of twentieth century modernist poetry. In this poem, the role as much as the attitude of women during the Great War is criticised. This essay argues that Sassoon's opinion on war and the participation of women conveyed in his Sonnet is influenced by his own experiences, also by referring to his biography as much as to historical research on World War One. First of all, one has to analyse

Sassoon also uses Repetition for the line ‘does it matter?’ and he follows it with ellipses to add the effect of silence and let the reader about it. ‘Does it matter? —losing your sight?..’ All a poet can do today is warn which is why true poets must always be truthful; Sassoon told everyone that the war is not what they think it is. All three poems have different meanings and all had

“Counter Attack” by Siegfried Sassoon. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an accomplished poet in WW1. Unlike Sassoon, Brooke never fought at the front line, but joined the Mediterranean Navy where he died of a mosquito bite. Rupert Brooke expressed his feelings about war (war being a heroic act) through poems such as “The Soldier” where he talks about the solemnity of the soldier and represented war as the ultimate sacrifice and honourable act for your country. Siegfried Sassoon (1887-1967), however

The poems ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon used the techniques of personal pronouns and irony to convey the poet’s feelings towards war. Formerly Owen and Sassoon all war poems had been patriotic and was used to encourage employment of young men in war. But, both Owen and Sassoon had seen the horrors of trench warfare themselves and their poetry was therefore become realistic about the unforgiving realities of war. Owen stated on his poems

The first of Sassoon poems “In an Underground Dressing Station” is about the pain and suffering there was during the time. There is a reason the author did not specify what country this man belonged to. This poem was about one person, but no matter what country they were fighting for, so many people went through this pain. The next poem “Battalion-Relief” also showed how even in these beautiful towns, they faced the terror of artillery and heard distant gun fire everywhere they marched. The soldiers

The outstanding poems That Dispute’s against war are Suicide in the trenches by Siegfried Sassoon, Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen , In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and Anthem of doom by Wilfred Owen. They all associate together to describe the horror and pain of what the fighters had to go through everyday, Also describe of what the nation have done to resolve this issues of death of the soldiers and lastly they helped me understand, how the whole idea of a soldier prospective and their experience

The number of deaths in World War I was approximately sixteen million and the number of people injured is twenty million, resulting in a combined total of thirty-seven million affected by World War I. Wilfred Owen was a soldier for the allies, an alliance composed of the United States, England, France. He bravely gave his life to attempt to end the war. However, before he died, he wrote a number of poems based on the things he endured while fighting in the war. Wilfred Owen uses his experiences from

Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” depict disillusionment with religion justifying or romanticizing World War I. Both these poems express the authors’ frustrations that religion cannot justify the tragedies and consequences of the war. These frustrations are conveyed through tones of mocking and sarcasm, in addition to other methods. In “They” Sassoon creates a conversation between a Bishop and soldiers to express his frustration, while Owen uses sarcastic questions