War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - War & Military, Single author

Authors: Siegfried Sassoon In Year : 1920

Book Language: English

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Prelude: The Troops
Dreamers
The Redeemer
Trench Duty
Wirers
Break Of Day
A Working Party
Stand-To: Good Friday Morning
'In The Pink'
The Hero
Before The Battle
The Road
Two Hundred Years After
The Dream
At Carnoy
Battalion Relief
The Dug-Out
The Rear-Guard
I Stood With The Dead
Suicide In Trenches
Attack
Counter-Attack
The Effect
Remorse
In An Underground Dressing-Station
Died Of Wounds
'They'
Base Details
Lamentations
The General
How To Die
Editorial Impressions
Fight To A Finish
Atrocities
The Fathers
'Blighters'
Glory Of Women
Their Frailty
Does It Matter?
Survivors
Joy-Bells
Arms And The Man
When I'm Among A Blaze Of Lights
The Kiss
The Tombstone-Maker
The One-Legged Man
Return Of The Heroes
Twelve Months After
To Any Dead Officer
Sick Leave
Banishment
Autumn
Repression Of War Experience
Together
The Hawthorn Tree
Concert Party
Night On The Convoy
A Letter Home
Reconciliation
Memorial Tablet (Great War)
The Death-Bed
Aftermath
Song-Books Of The War
Everyone Sang

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. He served in World War I on the Western Front and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire. However, he later became a convicted pacifist, threw his Military Cross into the Mersey river, and continued to write and publish poems and political statements against the war. His poems capture the despair he felt towards the war overall, and he paints vivid word pictures that make the reader "pray you'll never know, the hell where youth and laughter go". (Summary by Elizabby) Note: This work is in the public domain in the USA and Canada. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.