Alliteration Of The Military Majors By Thomas Sassoon

Within the poem Sassoon expresses his great disgust towards the military majors discourteous efforts toward the world war. He mimics the majors, and what his life would be like if he were him. He creates a sardonic picture of how comfortable the majors' lives were and how they were responsible for killing young soldiers by sending them to the front, but they themselves were never in danger as they did not have to fight; he depicts the majors as not caring about the lives of single soldiers.

Throughout the poem he uses punctuation to effectively emphasise key points, his use of alliteration almost makes it seem as though he is spitting his words with frustration 'Guzzling and gulping'. But on top of this, the structure and layout can also

This line could perhaps be Sassoon trying to suggest that the wrong people are making decisions that effect the war; it could be inferred, with prior knowledge to the ranks in war, that the 'majors' are only who they are because of their position in society. To further suggest this, Sassoon points out that the majors would guzzle and gulp 'in the best hotel', in addition, the fact that the majors are classed 'scarlet' and 'puffy' could suggest they have a lot of money to excessively drink and eat the finest foods. Overall, the poem conveys the majors as rich, high ranked people, who automatically were made majors because of this, which suggests they may not be the best people to put in charge of the war, as they don't have direct. This begins to explain and help the reader understand the pure anger and hatred that Sassoon holds against the majors. The word 'fierce' has been used in a sarcastic way, in that the major's idea of 'fierce' is barking orders at soldiers from the sidelines, and then going back to base at the end of it all, having watched thousands of soldiers