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Sassoon’s Poetic Protest against the War
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Sassoon's Poetic Protest against the War Sassoon's views on the war are very correct as he has had experience in several battles and knows what the First World War was like. In his point of view in the poems, everyone whether they be blind, deaf, injured e.t.c, can all play a part in the war and do a duty. He expresses this in the verse where he says, 'There's such splendid work for the blind. This line I find striking. Sassoon knew about the terror and intense atmosphere of the war but he is saying that the people who were killed in the war died to save the country and it's people. He expresses this constantly throughout his poems. 'The General' describes the relationship between the general and his soldiers. The general does not experience the front line attacking and so does not understand what the soldiers go through. He is...
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