he died‚ Blown to small bits. And no one seemed to care Except that lonely woman with white hair. Siegfried Sassoon‚ 1917 ___________________________________________________________________________ WRITTEN COMMENTARY The harsh contrast of the soldier’s death to the title of the poem ‘The Hero’ highlights the difference between reality and illusion as faced during the period of War. Sassoon conveys in ‘The Hero’ the ideology that War was not all fun and games as it were portrayed to be. For
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War I poems‚ a controversial issue has been whether Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen did a better job of getting their points across. On one hand‚ some argue that Owen did a better job because he wasn’t as angry. Since Owen did not show his anger as much it helped visualize his writings better. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that Sassoon did a better job because he did not use complex writing styles. In sum‚ the issue is whether Sassoon did a better job or if Owen knocked it out of the park
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“They” by Siegfried Sassoon The poem exists out of two stanzas‚ with a rhyme pattern of ababcc dedeff. The tone of the poem appears to be a little sarcastic and mocking. The poem is a direct conversation between a Bishop and boys (soldiers)‚ it can be seen by the use of the double quotations. I assume for the boys to be soldiers as they know the other soldiers by their names. In line 1-6 the Bishop‚ is telling the boys that when the soldiers return from the war‚ they will not be the same
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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‚ a well educated man‚ helped him to improve his drafts. Wilfred Owen felt a sense of duty to inform the public of the terrible conditions and suffering taking place during the war and quoted‚ ‘Above
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POETRY With the poems of Siegfried Sassoon we are moving from the conventional way of writing in the approach of the issue of war‚ in what sense??? First of all his approach is an anti- war approach ‚ he is not encouraging young people to join the war ‚ he speaking of war as being a cause of death. Because he is less conventional; he is less traditional ‚ he is writing poems labeled until now as anti war poems ‚ we find the division of his sentences‚ rhyme in words‚ the division of the poem
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‘’The experience of the Great War stripped men of their masculinity’’explore the ways in which Barker‚ Sassoon and Owen portray this in their writing. Sassoon and Owen as poets and Barker as a novelist‚ explore through their works of literature the changing and challenging notions of masculinity experienced as a result of The Great War. Furthermore‚ all three writers suggest that the often overlooked reality of the conflict was the creation of a subversion of the stereotypical ‘heroic soldier’.
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SEEMED TO CARE_ _EXCEPT THAT LONELY WOMAN WITH WHITE HAIR._ _The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon_ Sassoon titles his poem "The Hero‚" so the reader assumes the poem will praise a soldier’s courage‚ however‚ the title deceives the reader as it is about a mother praises her son‚ fed by the lies of the military and government. The writer uses rhyming couplets and also some other rhyming patterns. In the very first sentence‚ Sassoon highlights one of the main issues with the war. In the line‚ "Jack fell as
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“The Effect” by Siegfried Sassoon The Effect is about destroying the myth of death as either a desirable end for enemies‚ or a heroic resolution for patriotic soldiers. The poem follows the interior monologue of a soldier who has spoken to a war correspondent (reporter) told him someone he’d interviewed had said he’d never seen so many dead before. It is simply a poem about “The Effect” of seeing so many countless dead. Sassoon in his declaration says he has “seen and endured the sufferings of
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How to die (1886-1967) Siegfried Sassoon I believe that this poem is about the pain and suffering that Siegfried felt during the war. This poem says about the good old days for him when there was peace and quiet. Where there is no blood and pain. He talks about how the enemies made them suffer and how he hated them for killing him and therefore it shows that he was in the war when we were losing. He talks about how when he a killed a man he felt he was finally at peace probably because he was
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“Disabled” : The human cost of war Wilfred Owen’ s poem “Disabled” was written during his four-month stay at Craiglock- hart Hospital in 1917. The poem eloquently depicts the disassociation and detachment from self and society felt by this solider who has become disabled. Owen uses the term “queer” to show that the soldier’ s losses have made his body alien. These injuries have also removed his social masculinity. As I read the poetry of Wilfred Owen‚ I was often disheartened by his
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