How Do Both Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon Show Their Dislike Toward the War in Their Poems?
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were British poets and soldiers, regarded by many as the leading poets of the First World War. Their shocking, realistic War poetry on the horrors of the trench and gas warfare ended in them being institutionalized for their beliefs.
Firstly, Siegfried Sassoon will be analysed in Base Details and explore how he exploits the War in his poem.
Base details is based upon Sassoon enlightening the readers of the truth about the Majors in the War and what they were really like. Sassoon includes himself into the poem to portray to the reader how if he were a Major, how his attitude would differ, ‘If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath.’ This beginning line strongly indicates to the audience Sassoon himself is imagining he was one of the Majors during the war. Cleverly, Sassoon is here ridiculing the Majors by merely calling them old, overweight and that they were bullies. Straight away the reader feels a sense of Sassoon is going to tell the truth in this poem and speak out for what he believes in.
The structure of the poem is very simple and set out in two stanzas with ten syllables on each line. This gives the rhythm of the poem to flow and symbolize a nursery rhyme.
Language in poems indicates to the reader the tone and authority of the poem. Sassoon, throughout the whole poem uses childlike language that represents a nursery rhyme cadence. ‘…Last scrap’ this quotation shows how the majors think of the War to be a game and that it meaning to them. Sassoon purposely uses the reference of ‘scrap’ to present to the reader that the war was meaningless to the Majors and how they did not see the true horror the War caused.
By using the alliteration of ‘puffy petulant’ it demonstrates the plosives used of the ‘P’ sound; which strongly indicates the annoyance in Sassoon’s tone toward the Majors and wider, to the War. To continue, Sassoon uses plosives and childlike language to portray the Majors in an appalling
Firstly, Siegfried Sassoon will be analysed in Base Details and explore how he exploits the War in his poem.
Base details is based upon Sassoon enlightening the readers of the truth about the Majors in the War and what they were really like. Sassoon includes himself into the poem to portray to the reader how if he were a Major, how his attitude would differ, ‘If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath.’ This beginning line strongly indicates to the audience Sassoon himself is imagining he was one of the Majors during the war. Cleverly, Sassoon is here ridiculing the Majors by merely calling them old, overweight and that they were bullies. Straight away the reader feels a sense of Sassoon is going to tell the truth in this poem and speak out for what he believes in.
The structure of the poem is very simple and set out in two stanzas with ten syllables on each line. This gives the rhythm of the poem to flow and symbolize a nursery rhyme.
Language in poems indicates to the reader the tone and authority of the poem. Sassoon, throughout the whole poem uses childlike language that represents a nursery rhyme cadence. ‘…Last scrap’ this quotation shows how the majors think of the War to be a game and that it meaning to them. Sassoon purposely uses the reference of ‘scrap’ to present to the reader that the war was meaningless to the Majors and how they did not see the true horror the War caused.
By using the alliteration of ‘puffy petulant’ it demonstrates the plosives used of the ‘P’ sound; which strongly indicates the annoyance in Sassoon’s tone toward the Majors and wider, to the War. To continue, Sassoon uses plosives and childlike language to portray the Majors in an appalling