Suicide in the Trenches
Siegfried Sassoon * Track #5 On Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
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“Suicide in the Trenches,” by the English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), is one of the many poems Sassoon composed in response to World War I. It reflects his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was a brave and gallant upper-class officer who eventually opposed the w...
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I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
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When did Siegfried Sassoon release Suicide in the Trenches?
Siegfried Sassoon released Suicide in the Trenches on Tue Jan 01 1918.