Siegfried Sassoon

How do poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon present their ideas of war in their poems, Exposure and Does It Matter? Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are two famous war time poets, who conveyed their first-hand experiences of war through the form of poems to enlighten people towards the reality of war, as shown in “Exposure” and “Does It Matter?”. Exposure is an emotionally powerful poem that expresses the reality of the brutal weather conditions that were endured by the soldiers in the…

Each chapter will demonstrate exactly how fighting men felt themselves isolated in each of these respects, and how the sense of kinship formed in response to each of these causes of isolation. I will focus on the works of Sassoon as these reflect each of these five causes of isolation most acutely. His Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, for example, portrays both the Arcadian England that is often “a memory and an ideal” in War literature (Raymond Williams, qtd. in Fussell 232)…

The Great War was undoubtedly one of the most impactful events in the twentieth century. It was a war that forever affected the course of history. In itself, history is composed of developments or regressions in societies and cultures, which are in turn built up of aspects such as literature. The literature of a society strongly conveys its important themes. Consequently, in the aftermath of the Great War, it is clear that this conflict affected British society significantly in several ways,…

A soldier is in the trenches when a rat “leaps” into his hand. The soldier finds it slightly amusing that this insignificant rat is now touching “this English hand”, and will “do the same to a German”, as in Sassoon poetry, the line between enemy and friend fades during time in the war. But as the soldier is thinking about this “queer sardonic rat”, the rat’s point of view is discussed as well; “It seems you inwardly grin as you pass / Strong eyes, fine limbs…

Dulce et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are poems which respond to the first World War. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon use a variety of similar techniques in their poems to represent war in a negative light. Both poems highlight the physical and psychological horrors of war. Owen uses a simile by likening the soldiers to 'old beggars' as the impact of war on their bodies has left them 'stumbling' and ' coughing'. The fact they are 'stumbling' suggests they are injured as a result…

In “A Soldier’s Declaration” the author, Siegfried Sassoon, says that the public does not have “sufficient imagination” to realize the realities of war. Perhaps in 1917, when this piece was published, this was true. One hundred years ago, the camera was not widely used, neither was film, as it had just been invented. Radio was gaining more popularity, but it is hard to capture war and the suffering that comes with it in audio alone. The newspaper was how most people kept up with the progress of…

Essays on Modernity Essay Question 2: This fine arts analysis of the First World War and the ideology of “modernism” will be defined in “Gassed” by John Singer Sargent (1919) and “Does it Matter?” by Siegfried Sassoon (1917). The primary focus of Sargent 's painting defines the reality of “total war” and the meaninglessness of combat within the context of new war technologies that eliminated hand-to-hand combat and the “honor” of war in the old world 19th century context. In this manner,…

reasons and plans are mysterious and the Holocaust remains a question that cannot be answered by man. In a like manner, the article “About Siegfried Sassoon” expresses that Sassoon’s poetry in World War I provoked religious beliefs, but after World War I he began turning back to God to find peace from the horrors of war, which is evident when it states, “Sassoon became religious, something he had never previously been, and he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1957, strongly influenced by figures…

is the fact that he was a second generation immigrant, he was not as English as the others. During his London years, he had managed to go to art school, and his artistic background made him more aware of the colors and shapes of his surroundings: Sassoon called Rosenberg a "painter-poet" as he painted such vivid pictures in his poetry. Rosenberg's poems are not exactly about the action of war, he speaks not of battles, but of what the men are doing. His 'Louse Hunting', which shows the…

‘aggression’ -fuelled war in his poem ‘The General’. The poem questions the ideas of service and sacrifice as the ‘incompetent swine’ of a General causes his men to become ‘Connon-fire’ with ‘his plan for attack’ that ‘did for’ ‘most of em’ dead’. Sassoon was highly respected by his fellow soldiers and was decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He clearly states that he is ‘a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.’ and his use of colloquial language makes him even more…