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Discuss how Owen and Sassoon make war vivid and consider their intentions and motives in writing their poetry.
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Discuss how Owen and Sassoon make war vivid and consider their intentions and motives in writing their poetry. (Discuss the language used, the tone of the poem, the views of the poets. Discuss in detail the methods/devices used by the poets to bring the poems alive/ie. Make vivid. Make the poets' intentions clear.) Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon experienced war for themselves as soldiers. When Sassoon met Owen at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, he encouraged Owen to write about his experiences and express his feelings in poetry. Sassoon had been admitted for shell shock and so took this time to write poetry. When Owen died at the front Sassoon published Owen's work and continued to write about his experiences. It then became apparent to Owen that his duty lay in sharing the suffering of his men and returned to active service. Although he survived a shot to the head...
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