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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon. His father part of a Jewish merchant family originally from Iran and India His mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family Studied at Cambridge University but left without a degree Grew up wealthy and privileged. 1886-1967. Siegfried Sassoon.

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Siegfried Sassoon

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  1. Siegfried Sassoon • His father part of a Jewish merchant family originally from Iran and India • His mother part of the artistic Thorneycroft family • Studied at Cambridge University but left without a degree • Grew up wealthy and privileged 1886-1967

  2. Siegfried Sassoon • May 1915 – commissioned into The Royal Welsh Fusiliers and sent to France; known for his bravery • 1915 – brother killed in battle • Summer 1916 – sent home to recover from fever. Returned to France shortly after • 1917 – near-fatal wound; sent home to convalesce • Growing disillusionment with the war – ‘deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged’ • Wrote letter to The Times reflecting this opinion – prevented from being court-martialled by friend and poet Robert Graves – on the claim he had shell-shock

  3. Siegfried Sassoon • Sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment where he met Wilfred Owen • The pair became close friends and an influence on one another • Both men returned to the front – Owen was killed in 1918; Sassoon, again wounded, returned to England for the remainder of the war

  4. They (1917) The Bishop tells us: 'When the boys come back'They will not be the same; for they'll have fought'In a just cause: they lead the last attack'On Anti-Christ; their comrades' blood has bought'New right to breed an honourable race,'They have challenged Death and dared him face to face.'

  5. They (1917) 'We're none of us the same!' the boys reply. 'For George lost both his legs; and Bill's stone blind; 'Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and likely to die; 'And Bert's gone syphilitic: you'll not find 'A chap who's served that hasn't found some change ' And the Bishop said: 'The ways of God are strange!'

  6. Key Notes FORM/STRUCTURE • Two stanzas of six lines • Narrative poem – stanza one is the church’s opinion before the war, the second is the reality afterwards - satirical • Call-and-response • Stanzas mirror one another – use of caesura for example

  7. Key Notes THEME/SUBJECT • Anti-war – addresses distortion and realities of war – church’s political stance

  8. Key Notes LANGUAGE • Relevance of title • Dialogue • Use of punctuation – effect of exclamation mark?

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