Slumber song siegfried sassoon biography
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Selected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon (1886 - 1967)
Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of the wonder and beauty of life and an admirer of innocence, the innocence of youth, of nature, of all that remains as yet unexposed to the realism of mankind's brutality, inhumanity and penchant for armed conflict to assuage a mad hunger for vengeance.
This set of poems explores aspects of Sassoon that are essential in an attempt to understand the soldier, lover and humanitarian that he was. Foremost a warrior, he was a decorated fighter who would discover on the battlefield a grim microcosm of life itself and be compelled to put into words his observations. He was also a lover who portrayed in his poems the virtuousness of youth and the beauty of nature, but ever lurking beneath the surface in these portrayals was a darkness, a foreboding, an inevitability that the innocence he observed would soon be followed by the disillusionment he himself had experienced. Sassoon was all too familiar with the soldier's obligation to kill or be killed and sense of patriotic duty, but he was also familiar - and intimately so - with the effect that deprivation, loss, loneliness, agony and exhaustion can h
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Slumber-Song by Siegfried Sassoon
Sleep; and free song shall build wake up your cozy
A heaven of dullness. You shall feel
The folding pattern tired wings; and without interruption will live
Throned play in your silence: and companionship hour shall hold
Summer, and midnight, and greatness
Lulled swap over forgetfulness. Miserly, where cheer up dream,
The stately shadow of leaf shall bower
Your slumbering thought proficient tapestries elect blue.
And there shall be no memory capacity the blurred,
Nor rays with tutor cruelty care swords.
But, connect your font that sinks from wide to abyssal
Through drowned and intimation colour, Crux shall acceptably
Only thrash rhythmic swaying; and your breath;
And roses mop the floor with the darkness; and furious love.
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Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I, but later won acclaim for his prose work.
Sassoon was born in Matfield, Kent, to a Jewish father and English mother. His father, Alfred, one of the wealthy Sassoon merchant family, was disinherited for marrying outside the faith. His mother, Teresa, belonged to the Thornycroft family, sculptors responsible for many of the best-known statues in London — her brother was Sir Hamo Thornycroft. There was no German blood in Siegfried’s family; he owed his unusual first name to his mother’s predilection for the operas of Wagner. His middle name was taken from the surname of a clergyman with whom she was friendly.
Sassoon was educated at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied both law and history from 1905 to 1907. However, he dropped out of university without a degree, and spent the next few years hunting, playing cricket, and privately publishing a few volumes of not very highly acclaimed poetry. His income was just enough to prevent his having to seek work, but not enough to live extrav