WAR POETS

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France when he decided to return to England. In 1917 he was sent to France and saw his first action, then he was injured and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital to recover from shell shock. He met Sassoon and read Owen's poems, encouraging him to continue. Owen returned to the front in August 1918 and he was killed. Poems are painful in their accurate accounts of gas casualties He use assonance and alliteration extensively His subject is War, the pity of the war In 1918 he was preparing Disabled and Other Poems for publication, and at time he was writing the preface of the book. SIEGFRIED Sassoon 1886-1967 Siegfried Sassoon was born in a wealthy Jewish family in 1886. He lived a pastoral life and wrote romantic verse, he was the most innocent so his reactions to the realities of the war were bitter and violent.He was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital, where he met Owen. He used irony and he achieved the bitter spontaneity of shocking and realistic detail He protested publicly against the war, writing a declaration against it which was read out in the House of Commons in 1917. He denounced the political errors and insincerities for which soldiers were sacrificed Isaac ROSENBERG 1890-1918 Isaac Rosenberg was born into a working-class Jewish family, which had some economic difficulties that prevented him from attending Oxford or Cambridge. He was a talented artist, but was killed at the front in 1918. ● Poor backgrounds Modernist in technique His vision of war was unsentimental and less concerned with the pity of things He presented realistic and shocking details, with a touch of irony or paradox and contrast.