The Rear Guard

Independent study: Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Rear Guard” Groping along the tunnel, step by step, He winked his prying torch with patching glare From side to side, and sniffed the unwholesome air. Tins, boxes, bottles, shapes too vague to know, A mirror smashed, the mattress from a bed; And he, exploring fifty feet below

Siegfried Sassoon; perfect gentleman, decorated war hero and recklessly brave. Before the nations collided, he was a small-time poet, he had the passion but lacked the inspiration. He had often stated how he was “worried that his life was being wasted on sport and minor poetry”. It was the outbreak of the First World War that sparked his inventiveness for writing “meaningful poetry”. I discovered how Sassoon’s vigorous descriptions of his experiences, and how his poems all have interesting elements

Abstract: This paper focuses on exploring the styles and techniques used by Siegfried Sasson in his war-poem The Rear-Guard. This poem is about the negative effects of war on the minds of soldiers and the events happening in the battle field. Sasson is commonly known as a war-poet as he experienced them personally being part of Royal Welsh army. In this paper the techniques of foregrounding i.e. deviation and parallelism are used to make the implicit meanings explicit, used by the writer. Stylistics

Roland on the rear guard, no one will defeat them. When Roland hears this, he is prepared but ultimately finds a way to make it about Ganelon’s faults. Finally, he tells Charles that unlike Ganelon, who dropped the glove, he will not fail him. The second character Roland interacts with is Olivier. Olivier and Roland have a brotherly like relationship due to them growing up together and training together. When Roland is assembling the twelve men he will take with him to lead the rear guard, Olivier is

Brave men of war have faced adversities both physical and mental and risen above them as butter from cream. Chivalry and conquest have carried soldiers from pole to pole and across the seven seas. Hardships of campaign life are legendary, and the iron men these trials created go down in history as examples to all mankind. I have faced battle under duress and have learned I are not a brave man. Shell-shock are partially defined as a "psycho neurotic condition akin to hysteria." To this day I saddled

Siegfried Sassoon's poem The Rear-Guard is the story of a soldier, whose facilities have been compromised, frantically trying to escape the tainted and filth of an tunnel in which a war is raging above him. The poem if filled with a very real sense of urgency and horror in this poem. This is no glorious image of war, of charging machine gun nests or pulling wounded comrades out of harm’s way heroically in the eyes of one’s countrymen, but an image of a different sort. One a soldier faces daily, alone

Currently, rear impact guards on truck trailers are effective at up to 30 mph. These “bumpers” are also known as ICC bumpers or underride guards. That speed was set because the crash protection standards that must protect occupants of passenger vehicles is set at 30 mph. However, because passenger vehicles how must protect occupants that are involved in frontal impact crashes at up to 35 mph, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued a “notice of proposed rule making”

1 Jan: Guard 3.15-5.15 and then another half hour 10.15-10.45. Went back to billet at about 11 o’clock to act as guard to Relief Guard of the DLI [Durham Light Infantry]. After being relieved went with another chap and had a couple of boiled eggs and coffee then got kit together and went with George for a tass[e] de café. Paraded at 4.45 moved to trenches at 5pm. Got told off with 6 others including George for delving [?] trench, had to go through sewer. Got jolly wet as usual. 2 Jan: Went for shot

for the motorist. The rear underride guards of semi trailers don't offer much in the way of a crumple zone for absorbing impact energy. Damaged or rusted guards offer virtually no protection at all. In addition, hitting one at an offset (with the front left or right side of your car) causes severe damage to the car and may demolish the area occupied by the driver or right front passenger. Finally, a high-speed collision with the side of a trailer, which lacks an underride guard, can shear off the top

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