What Are Sassoon’s Attitudes Towards War

In this essay I will explore Siegfried Sassoon’s attitudes to war. Siegfried Sassoon detested war and so in 1917 started a crusade against fighting. He said ‘I can no longer be a party to prolonging those sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.' This sums up his whole feeling that effects his war attitudes. In ‘The Hero’ Siegfried Sassoon uses contrasting stanzas to emphasise the harshness of the last stanza. …

…believes that once war is started it turns its self into a vicious circle that doesn’t end quickly. He detested the slaughter and misconduct of the war by generals and politicians. He doesn’t like the fact that people don’t care when soldiers give their lives for others. His poems were written to tell people what really happened at war. They were especially aimed them at people who ‘falsely glorified the war.'