Siegfried Sasson’s “Dreamers” tells the story of a solider’s life, filled with rat infested dug outs and trenches “lashed with rain”, but also filled with the troops’ dreams of coming home to their families. The soldiers walk on “death’s grey land” as they risk their lives every minute during the war but they are also dreamers and when the gunfire starts, they think of “firelit homes, clean beds and wives”. This contrast between the reality of fighting and hope for a peaceful life, shows how people deal with the effects of war by thinking of the future, which makes the current horrors possible to deal with.

"Dulce et Decorum Est" is about the life of a solider and the struggles, this embodies the peoples feeling and how this effects them. In the poem "dreamers" this is a complete picture of the agony and how people felt, their opinions of the soldiers. "the second coming" a short poem about giving hope. The poem really describes how Yeats felt about the war. Literature helped people deal with the war by helping people heal and move on into the new world after war. 

 

 

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