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A Comparison between “Base Details” and “Leaving for the Front”
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A Comparison between "Base Details" and "Leaving for the Front" The two poems, "Base Details" by Siegfried Sassoon and "Leaving for the Front" by Alfred Lichtenstein, are two great pieces of literature written in the First World War. However the two, are fairly contrasting works of poetry, since Base Details is a very satirical poem for the reason that it is ridicules the Majors in the First World War and because Lichtenstein's poem describes the unfeigned feelings of a soldier going to the war. The features that are the most contrasting are the content of the poems and the uses of imagery in these pieces. Nevertheless the poems also have common attributes like their rhythms. Sassoon's poem is a parody of highly ranked officers, majors and generals in the army. It creates a sardonic picture of how comfortable they lives were and how they were responsible for killing young soldiers...
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