ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Siegfried Sassoon, Crimean War, Dramatic Monologue
4 Apr 2018
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With the exception of the crimean war (1853-(cid:1005)8(cid:1009)(cid:1010)(cid:895), late vi(cid:272)toria(cid:374) brito(cid:374)s" dail(cid:455) li(cid:448)es (cid:449)ere as undisturbed by global conflicts as are those of present-day canadians. Two percent of the british population died, more died in this conflict than in any other. Siegfried sassoon: a fox-hunting gentleman from the upper class (officer material). Protested that the war was being deliberately prolonged. Central, connecting figure to the study of ww1 poets. (cid:862)the general(cid:863) (cid:271)y iegfried assoon: there is a perceptible meter and rhyme scheme so in this way it is not quite so modern. This a dramatic monologue, with multiple voices: told by the general and switched o(cid:448)er to soldiers. There is (cid:862)register(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h are le(cid:448)els of la(cid:374)guage (cid:894)the (cid:449)a(cid:455) the ge(cid:374)eral speaks is differe(cid:374)t than the soldiers who speak in slang). There is a level of language that is appropriate to the image of who says it.
