Key quotes from Male poetry

Question 1

Sassoon’s declaration - Futility

Answer 1

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the war is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it

Question 2

Sassoon’s Declaration

Answer 2

I believe that this war, upon which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest

Question 3

Sassoon’s Declaration- Futility

Answer 3

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insecurities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed

Question 4

Sassoon’s Declaration - Naivety at home

Answer 4

I may help to destroy the callous complacence with which the majority of those at home regard the continuance of agonies which they do not understand, and which they have no sufficient imagination to realise

Question 5

Glory of Women - The Wind on the Downs

Answer 5

You love us when we’re heroes, home on leave, Or wounded in a mentionable place

Question 6

Glory of Women - Socks

Answer 6

While you are knitting socks to send your son/ His face is trodden deeper in the mud

Question 7

If - John

Answer 7

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you/ But make allowance for their doubting too