'The Hero' af Siegfried Sassoon, analyse

“The Hero” (1917) by Siegfried Sassoon 08.10.21 Summary of the poem Siegfried Sassoon is what we call a war hero, known for his bravery, but at some point Sassoon turned against the war, and considered it pointless and badly managed. Sassoon was also a poet, he wrote poems in response to World War I. Between 1915-1917 Sassoon wrote a poem called “The Hero” which shows his disappointment with the war. Here Sassoon portrays the pain of the families left behind, with the mothers pain of her son's death, by an officer delivering a consolatory letter to a woman in the