Siegfried Sassoon’s poem The Rear Guard encompasses various poetic techniques which gives this poem a realistic approach of the experience of being in the trenches through a soldier’s perspective, who forms the basis of the poem

Sassoon shapes the idea that the solider is unable to see clearly by using carefully placed punctuation.

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