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Show how the poetry of Owen and Sassoon illustrates and supports the sentiments expressed in "A Soldier's Declaration"
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Show how the poetry of Owen and Sassoon illustrates and supports the sentiments expressed in "A Soldier's Declaration" Siegfried Sassoon was a soldier in the war, but he was declared psychologically damaged and sent to Craiglockhart. While in the military hospital at Scotland he met Wilfred Owen. Owen was influenced incredibly by Sassoon, and therefore he started writing his own war poetry. A Medical Board declared Sassoon unfit for duty due to a declaration he wrote, which published his views on the war. "A soldiers declaration" was written in 1917 and published in the Times, for the public to read. It criticised the way the war was being dealt with, it can be broken down into three main points. His first criticised the military authority, blaming them for the length of the war. Declaring that they are the men who have the power to end the war, but they do not....
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