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    ONE SEEMED TO CARE_ _EXCEPT THAT LONELY WOMAN WITH WHITE HAIR._ _The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon_ Sassoon titles his poem "The Hero‚" so the reader assumes the poem will praise a soldier’s courage‚ however‚ the title deceives the reader as it is about a mother praises her son‚ fed by the lies of the military and government. The writer uses rhyming couplets and also some other rhyming patterns. In the very first sentence‚ Sassoon highlights one of the main issues with the war. In the line‚ "Jack fell

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    Siegfried Sassoon

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    Siegfried Sasson Siegfried Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 in Matfield‚ Kent. His father‚ Alfred Ezra Sassoon‚ was part of a wealthy Jewish merchant family‚ originally from Iran and India‚ and his mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family. Siegfried had one older brother‚ Michael‚ born in October 1884‚ and one younger brother‚ Hamo‚ born in 1887. His parents separated when he was very young‚ meaning that in his younger years he saw his father only rarely. Alfred died of consumption

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    Analysis- The Hero Brief Summary of Content-In the Poem The Hero Sassoon has presented the hardships that a soldier goes through in the war through the use of the soldier’s death. He also shows the pain of the families left behind by showing the mother’s pain after she finds out that her son as died on the battle fields. The first stanza is introducing the mother at the moment that she finds out her son has died. The mother reads a letter that a Colonel wrote for her and she hides her true feelings

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    They by Siegfried Sassoon

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    “They” by Siegfried Sassoon The poem exists out of two stanzas‚ with a rhyme pattern of ababcc dedeff. The tone of the poem appears to be a little sarcastic and mocking. The poem is a direct conversation between a Bishop and boys (soldiers)‚ it can be seen by the use of the double quotations. I assume for the boys to be soldiers as they know the other soldiers by their names. In line 1-6 the Bishop‚ is telling the boys that when the soldiers return from the war‚ they will not be the same

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    Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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    POETRY With the poems of Siegfried Sassoon we are moving from the conventional way of writing in the approach of the issue of war‚ in what sense??? First of all his approach is an anti- war approach ‚ he is not encouraging young people to join the war ‚ he speaking of war as being a cause of death. Because he is less conventional; he is less traditional ‚ he is writing poems labeled until now as anti war poems ‚ we find the division of his sentences‚ rhyme in words‚ the division of the poem

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    Elisha Owen English Literature ‘Survivors’ by Siegfried Sassoon In his poem ‘Survivors’‚ Siegfried Sassoon gives a satirical portrayal of life in the war. Though short in length‚ his poem is effective in using irony to poignantly expose the facade of war and its effect on the soldiers. Sassoon translates the realities of war into a soliloquy of contemplation and derision and with this the reader gains a sense of the writer’s experience and anger. The opening line gives the

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    nation or state. The poet Siegfried Sassoon reveals the true horrors of war suffered by soldiers during World War One through the poems “Does It Matter?” and “The Dug-Out”‚ displaying the loss and youth of innocence‚ brutality and constant presence of death in which soldiers experienced; the reality of the true horrors of war. Siegfried Sassoon was a British soldier during the years of 1914-1918‚ who experienced the true horrors of World War One. Before war‚ Sassoon published small volumes of

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    both poem ‘Does it Matter?’ and ‘Survivors’ the poet‚ Siegfried Sassoon is able to intensify the message of the non-combatants misunderstanding of the realities of war. This was by Sassoon using different language techniques such as rhetorical question‚ repetition and onomatopoeia. Rhetorical question is used to intensify the message of the non-combatants misunderstanding of the realities of war in the poem ‘Does it matter?’ by Siegfried Sassoon. Asking ‘does it matter’ reflects that the non-combatants

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    “The Effect” by Siegfried Sassoon The Effect is about destroying the myth of death as either a desirable end for enemies‚ or a heroic resolution for patriotic soldiers. The poem follows the interior monologue of a soldier who has spoken to a war correspondent (reporter) told him someone he’d interviewed had said he’d never seen so many dead before. It is simply a poem about “The Effect” of seeing so many countless dead. Sassoon in his declaration says he has “seen and endured the sufferings of

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    Glory of Women – Siegfried Sassoon You love us when we’re heroes‚ home on leave‚
 Or wounded in a mentionable place.
 You worship decorations; you believe
 That chivalry redeems the war’s disgrace.
 You make us shells. You listen with delight‚
 By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled.
 You crown our distant ardours while we fight‚
 And mourn our laurelled memories when we’re killed.
 You can’t believe that British troops "retire"
 When hell’s last horror breaks them‚ and they run

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