Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon
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- Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon
- "I knew a simple soldier boy"
- Past tense
- Boy is dead
- Personal pronoun
- "simple" - tells us he is innocent rather than naïve & doesn't understand concept of war
- "Who grinned at life in empty joy"
- Pleased by anything
- Carefree happy young man
- No worries
- Notion of how immature the boy who turned into a soldier was sent to war must have been
- "Whistled with the early lark"
- Enthusiastic image of young man
- "lark" - spring bird represents youthfulness
- "Cowed and glum"
- Contrast to
- "Whistled with the early lark"
- Enthusiastic image of young man
- "lark" - spring bird represents youthfulness
- "Whistled with the early lark"
- Depression of soldier emphasised in the word "cowed"
- "glum" - depressed. gloomy, tired, upset
- Contrast to
- "Lice and lack of rum"
- Dirty, grotty surroundings
- Spreading disease in the trenches
- "lack of rum"
- Shows the meagre supplies the soldiers had
- Represents there was a lack of rum to take off the boys depression
- "I knew a simple soldier boy"
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