Suicide In The Trenches In my analysis‚ I will demonstrate how Siegfred Sassoon has used many different language techniques to show his perspective on the true meaning of war. For example‚ the poet has used simplistic diction that creates an image of the destruction of a “simple soldier boy”. At first we see him whistling‚ this then degrades to depression which lead him to committing suicide. Siegfred Sassoon concludes his poem with anger and a powerful message. “Sneak home and pray you’ll
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The same reading‚ “Echoes and Voices‚” also explains that‚ “Ahead of us‚ wave after wave of British troops were crawling out of their trenches and coming towards us at a walk.” This shows how all these soldiers had just given up and accepted their fate‚ because of all the people that they saw die. This idea is demonstrated in the quote because if these soldiers had not given up‚ they would
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in seems of clothing‚ in the soldiers hair‚ or by animals that lived in the trenches along side the soldiers. The trenches were a very unsanitary place. So unsanitary everything is cleaned once a day and things are still able to be distributed throughout the trenches and infect many of the trench’s residents. Trench foot is a condition that is just as it sounds‚ a condition that affects your feet from being in the trenches. This comes from soldiers feet being in the water that was in the
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Life in the Trenches The war on the Western front (from 1914-1918) was one of almost exclusive trench warfare. The Western front stretched across Belgium and Northeast France spanning a distance of about 600km. Millions of men were killed along it but it’s line never moved more than 15km in any direction. On the Western front French and British troops together with thousands of men from Australia‚ Canada‚ New Zealand and South
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timetabling would be successful in which they predicted the time for every other nation to mobilise their troops. The nature of trench warfare and life in the trenches: * Structure – Sandbags were aligned for protection and strength. Barbed wire was used to slow the enemy down. Holes were dug on the sides for soldiers to lie down. Trenches were designed in a ‘zigzag’ pattern for soldiers to avoid the severity of attacks and explosions. Duckboards were placed to keep soldiers out of the mud
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Courtney Zamarione Mr. Neuber Pre-Ap English II 1st hour February 8‚ 2013 In life‚ everyone has a time where they question their chance of survival or their mortality. In Break of Day in the Trenches‚ by Isaac Rosenberg‚ he makes a reference that a rat has a better chance of surviving that he does. That even someone more worthless than him is going to survive this terrible thing called war. In this narrative poem‚ he is at war fighting in France during World War I‚ questioning his chance of
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Technology of the First World War: Technology that killed millions. Roham Asgari History 10 Mr. Keeler December 15‚ 2012 Asgari 1 When the death of Francis Ferdinand marked the beginning of WW1 as a "war to end all wars” It also began‚ the first War that where the newest and most lethal machines were experimented upon the newly armed troops. Only through these lethal and logical experiments did strategists understand the fatal that weapons were capable of. When the weapons were unleashed
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winning glory.” -> Very ungentlemanly war‚ trenches – chemical weapons. New weapons‚ like tanks‚ subarines and weapons of mass destruction. No room for bravery or chivalry when using these types of weapons. “Lions led by donkeys.” Submarines made it possible to destroy the enemy‚ without actually endangering yourself. Trenches meant unsanitary conditions‚ where diseases flourished‚ and so many died of disease if they did not die in the trenches‚ like the Spanish flue‚ typhus etc. The
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Conditions in the trenches during WW1 were horrendous. Better trenches would be about seven feet deep and 4-6 feet wide. Sometimes sand bags would line the sides of the trench otherwise a kind latticework wall of hazel branches was used (a bit like hurdle fences). Planking would be laid in the base. On the lip of the trench would be sand bags and barbed wire. Frequently‚ allied and enemy trenches could be as little fifty feet apart. Here and there dugouts were literally dug into the earth to provide
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Sassoon has released some of his most famous poems which at the time were highly controversial representations of the horror of war. “Suicide In The Trenches” is one of Sassoon’s most well know poems. Sassoon composed this poem to reflect on his own service and to show the effects of World War 1 on himself and on the other soldiers in the trenches. Sassoon felt hatred for the political leaders and for the people back home who felt safe and comfortable in their own country‚ their own home‚ whilst
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