Siegfried Sassoon

he travelled to France to teach English when the war broke out. He then went on to join the army and the horrors that he faced completely changed his life. Having being injured in battle, he met Siegfried Sassoon, also injured, in a hospital and went on to encourage each other’s poetry and Sassoon,

with the reader when combined with his powerful imagery. Another important part of Wilfred Owen developing as a writer in this time period was due to his influence from outside sources. The most significant influence that Owen had came from Siegfried Sassoon. The two spent a great amount of time together in recovery from various conditions. Owen used many of Sassoon’s ideas and they had similar viewpoints of the war resulting in a fast

compelling metaphors, Owen wants people to stop lying about how "sweet" and "fitting" it is "to die for one's country". Pat Barker's 1991 novel, Regeneration, represents her fictional-historical account of Rivers' treatment of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. The novel's anti-war message is very clear and well argued from Barker's point of view because by emphasizing on war and madness she shows us how the minds of her characters were damaged by the war. The novel begins with Sassoon's letter

all of the poetry, movies, and novels we have watched thus far in the course we have encountered a variety of types of shell shock, or as we call it today Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. We have had a chance to read poems written by Siegfried Sassoon Wilfred Owen who both spent time at Craiglockhart, a well-known mental hospital in Scotland, for suffering from symptoms of shell shock. We also had a chance to see for what shell shock was like during World War I when we watched a small series

bright poem with a bouncy rhythm. This may sound like it doesn't present the horror of war very well but it adds the irony to poem as the message contrasts with the light hearted bouncy rhythm. By saying the General in the poem and Siegfried Sassoon

‘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

Onomatopoeia Because of its special status symbolizing sound, onomatopoeia has the distinction of being the only aspect of English where there is an intrinsic connection between the language and the ‘real world’. It is well known that the connection between words and their referents is arbitrary; house is no more appropriate than mansion (French) or casa (Spanish). Onomatopoeic words, however, may have a physical connection with their referents; the sound of wind is

especially as it was a war of attrition. The conflict tested how long an army could endure the conditions and sustain morale. Achievements due to the efforts of the soldier were less visible and tangible. This perspective is further emphasised by Sassoon in “The Kiss” as he describes the “blind power” of the bullet reiterating the view that the conflict was futile. Even Rosenberg argues that the war was a time of mass slaughter and human sacrifice with little sense. Rosenberg sheds light on the artificiality

1. How does Sassoon show the depression of the young soldier? The depression of the young soldier before he commits suicide is clearly displayed in the poem. At the start of the poem, the image of a happy, young, and perhaps rather naïve boy is placed before us; ‘Simple’ tells us that he is innocent, perhaps rather naïve, and doesn’t understand the concept of war. ‘Grinned at life in empty joy’ suggests to us that he was pleased by anything, a happy carefree young man. He was young and had

1914, when he reflected society’s views of World War One as ennobling, in his poem “The Soldier”. Wilfred Owen then reflected his society’s new negative attitude towards war in 1917, with his World War One-themed poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon also showed that society thought of war as a devastating event, with his experiences reflected in his statement to his commanding officer, entitled “Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration”, and his poem about World War One, “Suicide in