Does It Matter?
Does it matter? - losing your legs?... How would you feel if someone asked you this? Good Morning/Afternoon. This term we have been studying propaganda and as you all know propaganda is information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution or nation. Today I will be talking about a poem called “Does it matter?” by Siegfried Sassoon. This poem talks about the struggles of coming back to everyday after the war.
As you all know in 1914 there was the breakout of World War 1 but what you may not know is that Siegfried Sassoon had fought in this war and that is when he began to write poetry. S. Sassoon wrote the truth about what kind of place the war really was. Back home there were short films, posters and flyers saying how great the war was and how good it felt to fight for your country. This was a type of propaganda. These advertisements about war were making men everywhere feel like it was they duty to do enlist and if they didn’t people would judge their manhood. S. Sassoon used propaganda in a way that was different to these advertisements. He used it to show the truth and maybe even exaggerate what war was really like through his poems. In “Does it Matter” S. Sassoon uses a number of different poetic and persuasive techniques to engage the reader to hear the true meaning of what he is saying. One of these techniques is the rhetorical question. In the first stanza, the first line he says is “Does it Matter?- losing your legs?...” It makes the reader think about how terrible life would be to live without legs and you feel empathy for the person who has lost their legs in battle.
Another technique S. Sassoon uses in his poems is Imagery. Imagery occurs when you are reading a line in a stanza and you can picture what you are reading in your mind. S. Sassoon uses this certain poetic technique in most of his poems as it helps the reader get more involved in the story of the poem. An example of imagery is “As
As you all know in 1914 there was the breakout of World War 1 but what you may not know is that Siegfried Sassoon had fought in this war and that is when he began to write poetry. S. Sassoon wrote the truth about what kind of place the war really was. Back home there were short films, posters and flyers saying how great the war was and how good it felt to fight for your country. This was a type of propaganda. These advertisements about war were making men everywhere feel like it was they duty to do enlist and if they didn’t people would judge their manhood. S. Sassoon used propaganda in a way that was different to these advertisements. He used it to show the truth and maybe even exaggerate what war was really like through his poems. In “Does it Matter” S. Sassoon uses a number of different poetic and persuasive techniques to engage the reader to hear the true meaning of what he is saying. One of these techniques is the rhetorical question. In the first stanza, the first line he says is “Does it Matter?- losing your legs?...” It makes the reader think about how terrible life would be to live without legs and you feel empathy for the person who has lost their legs in battle.
Another technique S. Sassoon uses in his poems is Imagery. Imagery occurs when you are reading a line in a stanza and you can picture what you are reading in your mind. S. Sassoon uses this certain poetic technique in most of his poems as it helps the reader get more involved in the story of the poem. An example of imagery is “As