Base Details By Siegfried Sassoon Flashcards
1
Q
Who wrote base details
A
Siegfried sassoon
2
Q
What is it about
What type of poem is it
What is its tone
What is its language
A
WW1
An anti war poem
Its tone is cynical
Archaic and dated
3
Q
First 3 lines
A
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I’d live with the scarlet majors at the base.
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
4
Q
Second 2 lines
A
You’d see me with my puffy and petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel.
5
Q
Third 2 lines
A
Reading the role of honour ‘poor young chap,’
I’d say- ‘I used to know his father well,’
6
Q
Last 3 lines
A
Yes we’ve lost heavily in this last scrap’
And when the war is done and youth stone dead;
I’d toddler safely home and die - in bed
