Siegfried Sassoon

Paper 2: Explication of Glory of Women The poem “Glory of Women” written by Siegfried Sassoon can best be described as a direct address to women during the time of WWI. The title, “Glory of Women,” is quite ironic seeing as though the term “glory” carries a great religious affiliation. The word itself refers to praise, honor, and distinction, words generally not synonymous with Sassoon’s tone throughout the poem. Additionally, another irony present is Sassoon’s utilization of sonnet form for…

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…

Sassoon actually experienced the terrors of actual battle and thus wrote poetry that shows hatred and anger towards war and fighting. As stated by epli_ellifu (2004), this poem is written in short, strong, blunt lines that portray the brutality of war. The…

World War I gave birth to many stories, and with those stories came many pieces of literature. Some of the main ones include All Quiet on the Western Front, a book by Erich Maria Remarque, “The Poet as Hero”, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon and “Who’s for the Game”, a poem by Jessie Pope. These literary pieces had some key differences. Although Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Sassoon’s “The Poet as Hero”, and Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” all shared their opinions on how soldiers should…

Renowned as being one of the most influential and prominent voices of the First World War, Wilfred Owen wrote powerful and inspirational works, but such only became pertinent after his tragic death in 1918. Owen was born in Oswestry in 1893 and spent most of his life growing up in Birkenhead and Shrewsbury. It was always Owen’s lifelong passion to become a poet; beginning to write verse at the age of 17. After failing in his endeavours to gain entry into the University of England, Owen started…

7. The toxic environment of Graves’ schooling is, luckily, not the only one where he develops romantic relationships and explores his sexuality. Later in the memoir, the amount of people to whom he is attracted is equally spread between men and women, but his male crushes are more lasting and emotional. He claims to have fallen in love with a nurse named Marjorie after a head injury, but his confession that “My heart had remained whole, if numbed, since Dick’s disappearance from it, yet I felt…

more… than life.” they are “The most comforting thing there is anywhere”(Remarque). Sassoon describes this powerful emotion, to lead one to act upon his feelings. The poem describes a soldier who is watching his comrade sleep, but thinks he could be dead. Out of pure fear and emotion for this comrade of his, he “shake[s] [him] by the shoulder” to make sure that he is not dead, and has not lost his comrade(Sassoon). The soldier in the poem has such an emotional attachment to his friend that it…

Suicide in the Trenches, written by Siegfried Sassoon, is a perfect portrayal of the torment that violence plays on the wellbeing of the mind. Sassoon, once a British soldier in the Western Front throughout World War One, is renowned for his aggressive and anti-war themes in his poems. Obviously subjected to an enormous amount of violence during his lifetime, Sassoon had the knowledge and the strength to write about his and others’ experiences in the…

The literature written about soldiers in World War I all speak of the death that occurs on the front lines and the loss of morals that occur. In the writings of War by Luigi Pirandello, Dreamers by Seigfreid Sassoon, and The Next War by Wilfred Owen they all show the loss of innocence that happens not only to the soldiers on the front lines but everyone what has an affiliation with the war. War effects all facets of peoples lives in some way, and those who were most effects were undoubtedly the…

and her sister Anne (Poetry). Mew is primarily known for her poetry although she did publish several short stories. Her poem and collection of poem both titled “The Farmers Bride” would solidify Mew’s literary reputation earning praise from Siegfried Sassoon, Ezra Pound, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf who called Mew “the greatest living poetess” (Poetry). In 1927 Mew’s sister Anne would pass away after a battle with cancer and the despair from the loss would eventually lead to Mew’s suicide…