The Attack by Siegfried Sasson
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- The Attack by Siegfried Sasson
- Introduction
- Public Poem
- Private- writing from his own experiences
- description of an infantry attack in WW1
- Captures details of man during an attack
- criticizes the war
- Not a glorified persecptive
- Setting
- on a WW1 battefield
- show the soldiers in a vulnerable situation
- presents the terror of the soldiers
- Sasson's Attitude + opinion
- first supported the war. was prepared to fight
- harrowing experience of war
- Physical and psychological suffering resulted in disillusionment
- He wrote to the house of commons
- criticizing the way in which British Soldiers were begin used for political gain
- had first hand experience of war
- Passionate tone
- Wanted to pro-try the suffering of soldiers
- while politicians remained safely at home behind the desk making decisions about war
- graphic hard hitting images accompanied by angry and biting tone
- Tone
- Title
- straight forward, direct tone
- Associated with military commands
- speaking tone is evident with its episodic narrative tone
- recounted in third person narritive
- observational giving the impression of a first hand account
- Very hard-hitting and immediate "they leave"
- observational giving the impression of a first hand account
- sudden rush of frantic and desperate tone
- this is a direct call for tragedies to stop
- "Oh Jesus, make it stop!"
- this is a direct call for tragedies to stop
- exclamation mark emphasizes the emergency of the tone
- closing tone is frantic and desperate
- present tense- very immediate
- opening tone is measured
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- Title
- Introduction
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