Siegfried Sassoon

contrast with those in "Regeneration" as we see Sassoon looking forward to sleeping in "clean whit sheets," although we realise that he feels guilty that he can enjoy this luxury and his comrades cannot. He says to Graves as he is seeing him off at the station "Dottyville is almost bearable knowing you don't have to be vomited on," this gives us an insight into the physical well being of some of the soldiers. After Graves has gone Sassoon "hates everybody, giggling girls, portly middle-aged

About John McCrae McCrae Was born in Ontario to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford. he was the grandson of Scottish immigrants. His brother, Dr. Thomas McCrae became professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. His sister, Geills married a lawyer, Kilgour, and moved to Winnipeg. He was a resident master in English and Mathematics in 1894 at the Ontario Agricultural College in Guelph. While in medical school, he tutored other students to help pay his tuition. Two

The Author of “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920), is Wilfred Owen, an English poet who served in the Army during World War 1. Interestingly enough, he is one of the leading poets of the Great War and has been quoted saying “I am furious with chagrin to think that the minds which were to have excelled the civilization of ten thousand years are being annihilated - and bodies, the product of aeons of natural selection, melted down to pay for political statues." With that in mind, it is easy to identify

Barry Hannah uses “Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed” to present an alternative to the typical southern hero during the Civil War. He does so by primarily focusing on two main characters: Jeb and Ainsworth. Jeb is the typical soldier every young man aspires to be. He is of high status in the military, all around very confident, religious, has absolute values, loves to kill, and is quite good at it. Ainsworth, however, is a soldier in the military who hates killing, of low-ranking, very timid

A Comparison of the Techniques Employed in Portraying the Horror of War in Regeneration and Journey's End "I chose the First World War because it's come to stand in for other wars… It's come to stand for the pain of all wars." Pat Barker wrote "Regeneration" in the 1990's and R.C. Sherriff "Journey's End" in 1927, the quote is from Barker and illustrates the magnitude of the effect of the First World War, and expresses the appeal of the subject. Both works use different

This topic resurfaces throughout the novel. Sassoon remembers the young boy in the bed next to him who has been castrated on the battlefield. Anderson dreams he is tied up with corsets. Prior recalls his weakness against his father and the influence of his mother. Sassoon mentions to Rivers the topic of homosexuality and the idea of an "intermediate sex." Rivers reflects on the "feminine: nature of healing

The long standing expression that “the pen is mightier than the sword” has been repeated often throughout the ages, but it can actually be taken seriously in light of war poetry. Although the soldiers in World War I did not literally fight with swords, their experiences in combat were beyond appalling, and some might say, beyond describable by words. Poetry, however, is a very powerful form of expression, and when written by someone who has experienced the horrors of war, it can deeply convey the

Analysis of How Sweet it Really is to Die for One’s Country “It is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country” (Horace). Although many American’s believe this statement to be true, Wilfred Owen disputes it in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Owen uses an oppressed and fearful but accusatory tone along with similes, imagery, rhythm, and diction to show his disapproval of the war. With the diction and rhythm used in the story of a gas attack paired with figurative language, Owen brings his audience

Google's search results page. Bootstrap makes it easy to create pill navigation. Let's see how to do this. Rivers goes home and prepares his nightly bath. He constantly thinks about the hospital and the welfare of his patients. He resents the luxury Sassoon has to object to the war. Though Rivers wants nothing more than for the war to end so that he may return to his research in Cambridge, he understands that it should not be left to another generation to fight German militarism. Rivers goes to sleep

“normal” human-being was wiped clean. This was the beginning of a major change in the lives of all individuals throughout the world. Before the War, many soldierss mindsets was that this war would turn them into “hero’s” and “men”. A poet, Siegfried Sassoon, wrote the famous poem ‘They’, explained, “The Bishop (authority) tells us: ‘when the boys come back/ they will not be the same” (1-2). These lines symbolizes how many or all soldiers were encouraged to join the War because they will come out