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The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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Number of Chapters: 64

Length: 01 hour and 38 minutes

Language: English

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)

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Prelude: The Troops (KHand)
Dreamers (KHand)
The Redeemer (asterix)
Trench Duty (asterix)
Wirers (asterix)
Break Of Day (asterix)
A Working Party (asterix)
Stand-To: Good Friday Morning (asterix)
'In The Pink' (asterix)
The Hero (asterix)
Before The Battle (asterix)
The Road (asterix)
Two Hundred Years After (asterix)
The Dream (asterix)
At Carnoy (asterix)
Battalion Relief (asterix)
The Dug-Out (asterix)
The Rear-Guard (asterix)
I Stood With The Dead (asterix)
Suicide In Trenches (asterix)
Attack (asterix)
Counter-Attack (asterix)
The Effect (Mark Hissong)
Remorse (Mark Hissong)
In An Underground Dressing-Station (Mark Hissong)
Died Of Wounds (asterix)
'They' (asterix)
Base Details (asterix)
Lamentations (Mark Hissong)
The General (Mark Hissong)
How To Die (asterix)
Editorial Impressions (Mark Hissong)
Fight To A Finish (asterix)
Atrocities (Mark Hissong)
The Fathers (Mark Hissong)
'Blighters' (asterix)
Glory Of Women (Mark Hissong)
Their Frailty (Mark Hissong)
Does It Matter? (asterix)
Survivors (asterix)
Joy-Bells (asterix)
Arms And The Man (Mark Hissong)
When I'm Among A Blaze Of Lights (Mark Hissong)
The Kiss (asterix)
The Tombstone-Maker (Mark Hissong)
The One-Legged Man (Mark Hissong)
Return Of The Heroes (Lucretia B.)
Twelve Months After (carlacortes)
To Any Dead Officer (Mark Hissong)
Sick Leave (carlacortes)
Banishment (Philip Panos)
Autumn (Philip Panos)
Repression Of War Experience (Philip Panos)
Together (Mark Hissong)
The Hawthorn Tree (asterix)
Concert Party (Mark Hissong)
Night On The Convoy (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
A Letter Home (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Reconciliation (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Memorial Tablet (Great War) (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
The Death-Bed (Beth Thomas (1974-2020))
Aftermath (carlacortes)
Song-Books Of The War (Drew Johnson)
Everyone Sang (Drew Johnson)
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