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Does it Matter?
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Siegfried Sassoon
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Does it Matter?
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Light and Sight
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Does it Matter? Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay
There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.
Light and Sight
That second stanza really hammers home Sassoon's point: for soldier's blinded by war, the loss of vision matters very deeply. But there's more than one way to be blind. And by the end of the poem,...
Eating and Drinking Imagery
Even though it's about going blind and losing one's legs, this poem doesn't forget about life's necessitates: eating and drinking. People aren't sitting around the table chatting over dinner, howev...
Other People
This poem is about a soldier, but it is also about other people that he meets when he gets home from the battlefield; they are shown doing everything he can't (eating, hunting), but they also seem...