The Importance Of War In Siegfried Sassoon

How would we ever know how war truly is if it wasn 't for literature? Reading literature can help you better understand the hardships and tragedies, they Finish the positive attitude,and challenges your view about war. They touch our hearts, in a way that textbooks are unable to. A good story makes us put ourselves in those characters shoes. Stories spark empathy, they make you interpret them, and think of the many tragic possibilities and consequences that war can bring upon us. Literature represents human expression, it helps us see a different point of view that otherwise we would never be able to experience. In his article Damien Gayle, writes about two authors giving speeches and sharing their thoughts on poetry and how …show more content…
There is a real sense of urgency and terror, in this poem. Groping along the tunnel, step by step…/ and sniffed the unwholesome air. The images and words that he uses makes you feel as if you are the solider in that tunnel, he allows us to see everything in the tunnel with extreme detail, he even explains how the air feels. Sassoon starts this poem with the verb "groping," he does this to reveal the extreme struggle that soldiers are oppressed with in war. The soldier 's senses are contained; he is carefully walking through a tunnel, pressing his body onto the walls, because he cannot see, it is pitch black and he only had a torch that flickered on and off. The torch acts like an eye; it winks, and glares. The soldier tries to see as best as he can, while smelling the unwholesome (unhealthy or harmful) air, which is most likely some kind of gas attack or the smell of dead bodies decomposing. He uses words like “Terribly glaring up”, to express how terrified this soldier was when he was walking along the tunnel. The tone in this poem seems to be anxious, because the soldier is portrayed as nervous and aggravated to get out of the