English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1535 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke
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The idea
Rupert Brooke's idealistic sonnet "The Soldier," from the sequence nineteen fourteen, imagines an English grave in a foreign field; he died in nineteen fifteen. Siegfried Sassoon satirized the war's patriotic pretensions and protested its continuation in his Soldier's Declaration of nineteen seventeen.
In practice
An idealist and a satirist.
Where people slip
Brooke wrote before the worst of the war.
Your place on the trail
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