Alfred Sasoons Poetry :: essays research papers

Sassoons bitterness against the state of war is made clear through and through his poetry, which is filled with his resent ment against war, the futility of it and the high price that had to be paid.In the numbers A working party Sassoons feelings towards the futility of war and the waste of life that war brings about is made clear through his use of his language and the way he makes the reader feel as if they enjoy the man in the poem. In this and many other poems, Sassoon uses irony and heavy sarcasm to make his true feelings known. In The Kiss, the entire poem has a actually sarcastic tone, and the poem could actually be read as a pro-war poem, but it actually shows Sassoons hatred for the war and how bitter he was about it. He calls his bullets and bayonet "brother lead and sister steel, saying in these I trust. This is a perfect example of how Sassoon used sarcasm, because at face value, the poem seems psychopathic, as if it was write by a man that actually enjoyed kil ling and the harsh conditions of the war, when in actual fact it is a poem that is against the war.In A working Party, Sassoon specifically starts the poem absent slowly, describing the men slowly making their way down the trenches, slipping into the mud and squeezing past other soldiers returning from the front line. Then, he ironically rushes the principal(prenominal) characters death in the last two lines, after the man is thinking how slow time passes. The mans sudden death shocks the reader and shows how suddenly life eject be taken away. It in like manner makes the death of the character seem insignificant and unimportant, and Sassoon probably did this because he felt that not enough attention was paid to the men that lost their lives fighting for their country, like his brother.In The General Sassoon uses a more direct way to show how he feels about the Generals who gave the orders, from well behind the front-line. I think that Sassoon was also bitter about the officers w ho gave orders although they knew nothing about what it was like in the trenches, and I think that Sassoon probably blamed them for much of the pointless deaths that occurred. Sassoons resentment of the General comes through two lines of the poem. "And were cursing his staff for incompetent swine" which is the fourth line, but does not hold any real impact until you read the last line of the poem - "But he did for them both by his plan of attack".