Read these lines from Siegfried Sassoon's "Dreamers."
"And mocked by hopeless longing to regain/Bank holidays, and picture shows, and spats,/And going to the office in the train." which of these can be found in this excerpt?
Which of these can be found in this excerpt?
A. parallelism
B. repetition
C. an epiphany
D. an allusion*****
I feel his words create an allusion of what he wants the reader to imagine. Right? Wrong?
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Maybe its parallelism - I can't decide...please help me writeacher.
Reading the entire poem helps! It just isn't that long!!
Dreamers
BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
I agree that "allusion" is the best answer among these four. The poet is creating a contrast between the soldier's reality and the life the soldier would really like to be living. The other three answer choices don't fit.
Dreamers
BY SIEGFRIED SASSOON
Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives.
I see them in foul dug-outs, gnawed by rats,
And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain,
Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats,
And mocked by hopeless longing to regain
Bank-holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
And going to the office in the train.
I agree that "allusion" is the best answer among these four. The poet is creating a contrast between the soldier's reality and the life the soldier would really like to be living. The other three answer choices don't fit.
Great - I should stop second guessing - thank you for the explanation - :)
You're welcome.
Remember -- for the future! -- that Sassoon and his friend Wilfred Owen were writing from the war itself. They were in it.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections
Remember -- for the future! -- that Sassoon and his friend Wilfred Owen were writing from the war itself. They were in it.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections
Oh wow...thank you so much -
I only have a few more to ask you - hope you don't mind...
I only have a few more to ask you - hope you don't mind...
An allusion
Dear Writeacher,
you are giving incorrect information. It is A. parallelism because the second line follows the same pattern.
you are giving incorrect information. It is A. parallelism because the second line follows the same pattern.
It’s not allusion. It’s parallelism
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