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Died of Wounds was written by another well-known ww1 Poet, Siegfriel Sassoon. Sassoon was a brave and well- respected officer.
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Died Of Wounds Died of Wounds was written by another well-known ww1 Poet, Siegfriel Sassoon. Sassoon was a brave and well- respected officer. He won the military cross for courage and fought at several battles, yet he also detested the slaughter and the misconduct of the war by generals and politicians. Sassoon's poems are aimed to tell the truth about the war that he had fought in. He used a plain, direct style, often bringing in soldiers slang. Also a pattern of sharp lines often leads to a ' knock - out blow' in the last verse. Died of the Wounds was based on a dying soldier who Sassoon had seen in a hospital near the Somme in July 1916. Sassoon firstly focuses on the soldiers face in the first verse. He uses the words ' wet', 'white' and ' miserable eyes'. The word ' white' emphasises the illness of the soldier...
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