I get goosebumps from the last stanza! Absolutey love Sassoon, my favourite poem of his is 'Microcosmos'— which I highly recommend if you haven't read already!
Working Party is, for me, a microcosm of everything that Siegfried Sassoon hated about war and felt so deeply about the individual soldier facing death.
…And says “I choose him.” 🤯 Wonderful commentary. Reminds me of a recent book I just read ‘The Warm Hands of Ghosts’ by Katherine Arden — also about WWI hospital - it was a really good read!
I greatly appreciate Sassoon’s poetry and am very grateful you brought to our attention the timeless quality of his works. Poets from WWI, including Wilfred Owen, are largely forgotten today yet they expressed the youth and the cruelty of life so deeply. This was the conflict that awoke a century of so-called peace, committing the world to an ever more brutal path, destroying individuals and families in its wake on a scale not previously imagined.
Remindful of the song/poem, 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda'. Very powerful as well.
I get goosebumps from the last stanza! Absolutey love Sassoon, my favourite poem of his is 'Microcosmos'— which I highly recommend if you haven't read already!
I haven’t read microcosmos actually! Will check it out, thanks :)
Working Party is, for me, a microcosm of everything that Siegfried Sassoon hated about war and felt so deeply about the individual soldier facing death.
…And says “I choose him.” 🤯 Wonderful commentary. Reminds me of a recent book I just read ‘The Warm Hands of Ghosts’ by Katherine Arden — also about WWI hospital - it was a really good read!
I greatly appreciate Sassoon’s poetry and am very grateful you brought to our attention the timeless quality of his works. Poets from WWI, including Wilfred Owen, are largely forgotten today yet they expressed the youth and the cruelty of life so deeply. This was the conflict that awoke a century of so-called peace, committing the world to an ever more brutal path, destroying individuals and families in its wake on a scale not previously imagined.