Perspectives

To broaden your perspective on “Suicide in the Trenches” by Siegfried Sassoon, we will add some points related to current issues, literary period and similar works.

Current issues

The poem targets specific historical events, World War I and its horrors and negative consequences for the soldiers. Although warfare has changed immensely since World War I regarding strategies and technologies, the psychological effects are still traumatic.

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Literary period/movement

Siegfried Sassoon belongs to the Modernist movement in poetry and is one of the various...

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Works with the same theme

For you to better grasp the style and tone of war poets, we recommend that you also read “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1920) by British poet Wilfred Owen, which also criticises war idealism by presenting a gruesome scene from the battlefield.

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