Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

The poem describes a gas attack in the trenches and pulsates with a sense ... set poems that offer different responses to the war. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the machine ...

He witnessed the fighting at its worst, both in battle and in the trenches, yet remained upbeat. “And it was our pride and boast to be / The instruments of Destiny,” he declared in his poem ...

In the trenches his men had known Lieutenant Sassoon ... Siegfried Sassoon’s protesting voice had been silenced, but his poetry remained clear and forceful. In 1918 he wrote, “You smug faced ...