Everyone Sang Sassoon Analysis

War is brutal. War can tear countries and families apart and leave them no mercy. War sucks all of the joy out of life. But when war ends, it can bring happiness and joy to thousands and thousands of people. Celebration breaks out all across the world and people finally feel free from the endless turmoil and pain that had been the previous war. Sometimes, many people actually break out into song and sing at the top of their voices because they know they are free. This theme of war being so brutal that when it ends people cannot help themselves from singing, celebrating, and feeling free is emphasized in “Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon because of the poetic elements of diction, sound devices, and figurative language. Diction, or the choice of imaginative words, plays a major role in the theme of this poem. The poem immediately starts out by jumping into the happiness that is initiated by the end of the war: “Everyone suddenly burst out singing” (1). The speaker uses the words “suddenly” and “burst” because they underline the message that all of the happiness and joy of the people has been bottled up during the war. When the war ends, however, this happiness is able to escape and it does so suddenly because it has been waiting a long time for that moment. The speaker also uses diction in another part of …show more content…
War can be devastating and sometimes even deadly, often times leaving families and nations in disarray. If people are able to make it through, however, they will be rewarded with joy, freedom, and beauty much greater than before the war. This happiness will not only make them feel better, but it will also make people realize how lucky they have it, and they will value the simple things in their lives a lot