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Compare the way Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen portray war in 'The Rear Guard' and 'Strange Meeting'.
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Laura Cole Compare the way Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen portray war in 'The Rear Guard' and 'Strange Meeting' The first poem 'the Rear Guard' describes a soldier's journey when trying to escape from the horror of the trenches. En route he stumbles across what is described by Sassoon as a 'sleeper'- a solider who is believed to be asleep. After a silent response and dormant reactions to the soldier's kick, he discovers that the 'sleeper' is actually a dead victim of war. Eventually the 'rear-guard' is able to leave the tunnel 'unloading hell behind him'. In 'Strange Meeting', it is supposedly Owen who is the narrator telling the reader of his experience. The narrator believes he has died and has been sent to hell, where he meets a ghost (hence the title) and is told how it is terrible to die young in war. The poems share many similarities as well as the...
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