The Horrors Of Safuon In The War Poetry Of Siegfried Sassoon

As a man raised in a wealthy, Jewish household, Siegfried Sassoon shockingly chose to participate in World War 1. While serving in World War One, he realized the horrors and awful events that take place during wars. His poems calling out the first world war become wildly popular critically and publically. Siegfried Sassoon was born on September 8, 1886 in Brenchley, Kent, England. He was born to Alfred and Theresa Sassoon. Sassoon grew up living in lavish because his family gained fortune from India. He lived “the leisurely life of a cultivated country gentleman… pursuing… poetry and fox hunting” (Anonymous 1). He attended and was educated at Marlborough College and Clare College. Though Siegfried had a jewish upbringing, in his adult life
His first couple of works were printed privately between 1906 and 1916. After he came back from seeing the horrors of the war, his poems changed and improved drastically. Some of Sassoon’s best war poems is collected in The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon. This is a collection sixty four poems that were written while he was hospitalized for “mental illness”. The public went crazy for his poems. Those who read them either completely agreed or completely disagreed with Siegfried’s stance. A lot of readers “complained the poet displayed little patriotism, while others found his found his [work] shockingly realistic” (1). Siegfried Sassoon considered himself a pacifist, but a lot of his pacifist friends thought that his work was too harsh and graphic. Siegfried used this hotly debated poems to capture the eyes need to discontinue the World War. Even after being hospitalized, Sassoon continued to protest the war through his works. He continued to write detailed poems of his experiences and disappointment in the United States army. He began to include his life before the war in his writings. He also talked of how he became a pacifist, and tried to tell people through his work to join him. When Siegfried became converted to Catholicism, his work changed with him. Before, he was heavily influenced by religion. Now his works always tied the war and Catholicism together. He
Though his poetry had different stark reactions, it was still highly acclaimed and recognizable by many. His protest of the War led many others to follow in his footsteps. His extremely popular poetry was read by people all over the world, and especially by people involved in the war. Sassoon was well known for his harsh, extreme, and vivid recreations of the war through his works. He combines imagery, tone, mood, and his very own experiences of the war into a very clearly opinionated poem. Siegfried criticised and harped the war and all the people involved in it. He did what others are afraid to do and he took a stand. This poet should be studied and read in every household because it proves how your words can and will affect a change. He use his work as much more than entertainment. He stood up against the norms of society and stood for what was right. He rallies his audience through his works, and calls them to stand up themselves to those who are doing wrong. Siegfried Sassoon called out the mockery of Catholicism in the first World War, and he protested the wrongdoings that it