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Sassoon was a friend of graves, they served in the same regiment during the first world war and shared a love of poetry. Sassoon knows this, and it becomes a powerful element in his art. The war poems siegfried sassoon no poetry has touched readers hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the first world war. Born into a wealthy jewish family in 1886, sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire. Attack by siegfried sassoon is a good example of a soldier retelling his experience in the trenches during world war i. War poems by siegfried sassoon overdrive rakuten overdrive. John hildebidle has called sassoon the accidental hero.
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