The imagery in this poem moves from that of a young, happy boy to a young depressed soldier who has no hope in life and unable to bear this state of futility and hopelessness, resorts to suicide. What is most disheartening is that even after the young soldier is dead, he will be as easily forgotten as while he was alive. Sassoon further depicts how the common people will never know or feel the loss that soldiers go through where their entire youth is spent in the futility that the war is and all common people would be doing is, cheering by. These contrasts are used by Sassoon to highlight the psychological effects of the war on
The imagery in this poem moves from that of a young, happy boy to a young depressed soldier who has no hope in life and unable to bear this state of futility and hopelessness, resorts to suicide. What is most disheartening is that even after the young soldier is dead, he will be as easily forgotten as while he was alive. Sassoon further depicts how the common people will never know or feel the loss that soldiers go through where their entire youth is spent in the futility that the war is and all common people would be doing is, cheering by. These contrasts are used by Sassoon to highlight the psychological effects of the war on