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    The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
    The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
    The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon
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    The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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    Siegfried Sassoon was an English author and soldier. His poetry depicted the dreads of the dugouts and satirized the nationalistic pretensions of those responsible for beginning the first world war.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateMay 28, 2022
    ISBN8596547021681
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    Siegfried Sassoon

    Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He served in the trenches during the First World War, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Despatched as ‘shell-shocked’ to hospital, he organised public protest against the war. His poetry initially met with little response, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades.

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      Book preview

      The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon - Siegfried Sassoon

      Siegfried Sassoon

      The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

      EAN 8596547021681

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

      Table of Contents

      I

      THE EFFECT

      II

      III

      I

      PRELUDE: THE TROOPS 11

      DREAMERS 13

      THE REDEEMER 14

      TRENCH DUTY 16

      WIRERS 17

      BREAK OF DAY 18

      A WORKING PARTY 21

      STAND-TO: GOOD FRIDAY MORNING 24

      IN THE PINK 25

      THE HERO 26

      BEFORE THE BATTLE 27

      THE ROAD 28

      TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER 29

      THE DREAM 30

      AT CARNOY 32

      BATTALION RELIEF 33

      THE DUG-OUT 35

      THE REAR-GUARD 36

      I STOOD WITH THE DEAD 38

      SUICIDE IN TRENCHES 39

      ATTACK 40

      COUNTER-ATTACK 41

      THE EFFECT 43

      REMORSE 44

      IN AN UNDERGROUND DRESSING-STATION 45

      DIED OF WOUNDS 46

      II

      THEY 47

      BASE DETAILS 48

      LAMENTATIONS 49

      THE GENERAL 50

      HOW TO DIE 51

      EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS 52

      FIGHT TO A FINISH 53

      ATROCITIES 54

      THE FATHERS 55

      BLIGHTERS 56

      GLORY OF WOMEN 57

      THEIR FRAILTY 58

      DOES IT MATTER? 59

      SURVIVORS 60

      JOY-BELLS 61

      ARMS AND THE MAN 62

      WHEN I'M AMONG A BLAZE OF LIGHTS 63

      THE KISS 64

      THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER 65

      THE ONE-LEGGED MAN 66

      RETURN OF THE HEROES 67

      III

      TWELVE MONTHS AFTER 68

      TO ANY DEAD OFFICER 69

      SICK LEAVE 72

      BANISHMENT 73

      AUTUMN 74

      REPRESSION OF WAR EXPERIENCE 75

      TOGETHER 77

      THE HAWTHORN TREE 78

      CONCERT PARTY 79

      NIGHT ON THE CONVOY 81

      A LETTER HOME 83

      RECONCILIATION 87

      MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR) 88

      THE DEATH-BED 89

      AFTERMATH 91

      SONG-BOOKS OF THE WAR 93

      EVERYONE SANG 95

      I

      Table of Contents

      PRELUDE: THE TROOPS

      Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom

      Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals

      Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots

      And turn dulled, sunken faces to the sky

      Haggard and hopeless. They, who have beaten down

      The stale despair of night, must now renew

      Their desolation in the truce of dawn,

      Murdering the livid hours that grope for peace.

      Yet these, who cling to life with stubborn hands,

      Can grin through storms of death and find a gap

      In the clawed, cruel tangles of his defence.

      They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy

      Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all

      Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky

      That hastens over them where they endure

      Sad, smoking, flat horizons, reeking woods,

      And foundered trench-lines volleying doom for doom.

      O my brave brown companions, when your souls

      Flock silently away, and the eyeless dead,

      Shame the wild beast of battle on the ridge,

      Death will stand grieving in that field of war

      Since your unvanquished hardihood is spent.

      And through some mooned Valhalla there will pass

      Battalions and battalions, scarred from hell;

      The unreturning army that was youth;

      The legions who have suffered and are dust.

      DREAMERS

      Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land,

      Drawing

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