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... Compare two poems which you have found are most effective in conveying the experience of World War 1 Many terrible things happened in World War 1 or the Great War. For me one of the main points were the injustice of it all, how the officer class treated the young ordinary soldiers, mostly from the working class, I have chosen two poems by Siegfried Sassoon which pick up on these themes "Base Details" and "Does It Matter?" In both these poems, Sassoon uses sarcasm to magnify his feelings of both anger and frustration, and this makes both poems particularly poignant. In "Base Details", Sassoon portrays the role of an army commander back at headquarters ("the Base"), well away from the front line. As soon as you read "Base Details you can tell how much Sassoon hates these base areas, in which the generals lay behind. The sarcasm he uses is so
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