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Mention your names here
• Kent 1886 – Mells 1967
• Jewish
• English poet and soldier
• Bitter reactions against war
• ‘Mad Jack’
On
Passing
Meninby
Gate
Paid
are its the
dim new
defenders
this
pomp;
Who
remember,
passing
Paid,will
with
a pile of
peace1,
through
this
Gate
complacent stone,
The
Dead
who fed
the
Theunheroic
armies who
endured
that
guns?
sullen swamp.
Who
the worst
foulness of
Hereshall
was absolve
the world’s
their
fate,—
wound.
And here with pride
Those
conscripted,
‘Their doomed,
name liveth
for ever,’ the
unvictorious
ones?
Gateway claims.
Crudely
renewed,
the Salient
Was ever
an immolation
so belied
holds
its own.
As these
intolerably nameless
names?
Well might the Dead who
struggled in the slime
Rise and deride this sepulchre of
crime.
Who will remember, passing through this Gate,
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?
Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate,—
Those doomed, conscripted, unvictorious ones?
A
B
B
A
Crudely renewed, the Salient holds its own. Paid are its
dim defenders by this pomp; Paid, with a pile of peacecomplacent stone, The armies who endured that sullen
swamp.
Here was the world’s worst wound. And here with
pride ‘Their name liveth for ever,’ the Gateway
claims. Was ever an immolation so belied As these
intolerably nameless names? Well might the Dead who
struggled in the slime Rise and deride this sepulchre of
crime.
A
B
B
A
C
D
E
D
C
E
SPECIAL
Special:
• Divided in two parts
- Octave: describing & questioning
• Sound
Paterns
& rhymethe
schemes:
- Sestet:
Condemns
monument
- Alliteration
• -Sound
Paterns & Rhyme schemes
Assonance
- Alliteration (v. 7)
- Alliteration
- Assonance (v. 14)
- Internal Rhyme (v. 2)
•
• war leaders betrayed the ordinary soldier
• Foul ending, rather than heroic
• monument = lie
• official propaganda
• To: all civilians
• Accusing
• Tone: disgust & contempt
Themes:
THEMES
• 1) Death
- Sassoon is angry about…
military planning
• -1) Poor
Death
- Sassoon is angry about…
• 2) Betrayal
• 2) Betrayal
-To
glorify
the British
- Just
to glorify
the British government
government and history
THEMES
Themes
(part 2)
• 3) Propaganda
- False picture put out by officials
- Officials : =)
• 3) Propaganda
soldiers : =(
- False picture put out by officials
• 4) Memory
• 4) Memory
- Died as ‘nameless men’
- Died as ‘nameless men’