Base Details - Siegfried Sassoon
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- Base Details - Siegfried Sassoon
- "If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath"
- List
- Stereotypical
- Mocking Higher Command
- "glum heroes up the line to death"
- War not like expected
- Not heroes
- Sending men off to die
- H.C too detached to realise
- "puffy petulant face"
- Well-fed
- "petulant" - arrogant
- Mocking
- "Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel"
- Alliteration
- Greed
- Contrast to trenches
- "Poor young chap"
- Overused statement
- Hollow sympathy
- Messages of condolences
- "Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap"
- Killed, not lost
- Adverb
- Understated
- H.C fault
- "youth stone dead"
- Young men are dead
- "I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed"
- "toddle"
- No worry
- Adverb
- Detached from reality of war
- Die in bed than battle
- "toddle"
- "If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath"
- "puffy petulant face"
- Well-fed
- "petulant" - arrogant
- Mocking
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