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"Base Details" Siegfried Sassoon - Coggle Diagram
"Base Details" Siegfried Sassoon
Poetic Techniques
Rhyme
"breath" "death"
"chap" "scrap"
"dead" "bed"
"hotel" "well"
Half rhyme
"base" "face"
Alliteration
"guzzling and gulping"
"puffy and petulant"
"reading the roll of honour"
Double meaning
"base details"
base: place of safety that soldiers/majors rest and plan (headquarters)
base: dishonourable, cowardly
Themes
Power
War
"line of death"
Imagery
Tone
Sadness
"We've lost heavily in this last scrap"
"speed glum heroes up to the line to death"
Frustration
"we lost heavily lost heavily in this last scrap"
"when the war is done and youth stone dead"
Fear
"poor young chap"
"speed glum heroes up the line to death"
Anger
"fierce and bald"
"I'd live with scarlet majors at the base"
"gulping in the best hotel"
"puffy petulant face"
"toggle safely home and die in bed"
Jealousy/Envy
"guzzling and gulping in the best hotel"