Question

Compare Siegfried Sassoon’s works to Valery’s essay. How are their messages similar? How do the authors persuade their audiences? Your answer should be at least one hundred words.

Answer 1

Valery and Sassoon were both writers of Modernism. They reflected reality and wrote from personal perspectives. Sassoon used his wartime experiences as a driving force in his poetry while Valery used universal experiences.

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Answer 2

Siegfried Sasson illustrates the dramatic transformation most soldiers went through after experiencing World War 1. Englishmen like Sasson initially thought themselves as involved in a heroic effort to defend liberalism and the British a hellish and pointless nightmare. Intellectuals like Paul Valery were also disillusioned by the war, and many feared that the West and its liberal values would not long survive. In the essay below, he makes allusion to the scene in which Hamlet ponders mortality while studying the skull that is all that remains of a man he had known in life.