WWI Poetry
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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WWI Poetry
Siegried Sassoon
TRench Warfare
Serving as an Officer
Siegfried Sassoon
- Fought at Mametz Wood and in the Somme Offensive of July 1916
- Awarded Military Cross and the nickname Mad Jack
- Suffered a sniper's bullet to the chest
- Made A Soldier's Declaration
- Coalesced at Craiglockhart, Scottland yet would return to the Front
Information retrieved from Baym, N. (Ed.) (2006). Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). In The Norton Anthology of British Literature (Vol. 2, p. 1960). New York, NY: Norton.
Sassoon's Poetry
Mad Jack has style
- "Shock tactics, bitter irony" of war
- "Masterly use of direct speech"
- Attacked those responsible for soldier's misery
- Shows "grim realities" of war
Information retrieved from Baym, N. (Ed.) (2006). Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). In The Norton Anthology of British Literature (Vol. 2, p. 1960). New York, NY: Norton.
