出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2010/05/12 01:04 UTC 版)
Memorial Tablet (Great War) is a 1918 poem by Siegfried Sassoon that makes the reader feel great pity for the soldiers. The author achieves this by adopting the persona of a dead soldier. The soldier is angry and tells us how his life was wasted, by his being forced to fight and end up dying for nothing. The details the poet gives us and the strong blunt language are the effective techniques for engaging our feelings for the soldier. The poem gives us insight in to what the war was about: a gruesome pointless death, for this soldier.