... longer cares. It is the physical trauma that these men suffered during the war and the psychological trauma they suffered on their return back that Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon became renowned to write about; their poems are a stark contrast to that of Pope's "who's for the Game?" and ... little life is left in him, a tragic end to the life of a youngster who, before joining the war, had a very happy youth. Owen uses the metaphor "budded" suggesting to the reader that the victim's previous years were like the springtime because he was always happy thus further heightening ... achiev...

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... many cases prevented them from interfering in what was, after all, private mail. The failure of censorship in some cases led to difficult circumstances, for example, Wilfred Owen wrote a piece on the conditions in the trenches and his feelings about the matter, which was published, and raised a public outcry, as an officer, ... gentleman, and receiver of both the MM and MC, it would have been impossible to accuse him of cowardice. Despite this, Owen later admitted he had expected to be "shot by firing squad" instead, they pronounced him as mad, and sent him to Craiglockart, Scotland, whe...

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