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"Does it Matter?"- Siegfried Sassoon Questions 1. The terrible injuries are, 'losing your legs', which means that in war soldiers have had their legs blown away; 'losing your sight', which means soldiers have become blind as a result of war, and finally 'those dreams from the pit', which means that soldiers still have, and always possibly will have for the rest of their lives, the memories of war as hell, and also dreams about it. They will therefore remember the conditions they've been in when at war. 2. Sassoon means, when he uses sarcasm to sharpen effects, such as 'There's such splendid work for the blind', that war is really terrifying and after it can affect soldiers' lives very seriously, such as making them blind, turning them disabled, and even killing them. He's sending out a message that once blind, you can never get your original life back like it was before, when...

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