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From the poems of Owen, Sassoon and Binyon compare and contrast their attitudes towards the First World War, showing how each poem achieves its effect.
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From the poems of Owen, Sassoon and Binyon compare and contrast their attitudes towards the First World War, showing how each poem achieves its effect. Sassoon and Owen both hate the war, and they use their poems to reflect this. While Sassoon's hate is personal as it is mostly directed towards the Officers of World War I. Binyon, however, validates the death and destruction of the war with counter balancing praise, remembrance and thanksgiving. During WWI Sassoon trained men, many of whom probably didn't make it to the end of the war, as the survival rate for ordinary soldiers was very low, only a couple of weeks, but in contrast the survival rate of Officers was higher, probably because they didn't take the same risks as the soldiers. Sassoon couldn't stand that, and wrote these poems to bring to light the cowardice of the Officers. In doing so he got...
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