John Press points out that it was, perhaps, the common soldiers who first apprehended the horror and suffering of the war in its full intensity, and the officers saw the conflict in a more heroic light than the other ranks (1969, 135). Life in the trenches was miserable for Rosenberg, not only because he was a private, but he was a Jew and an intellectual who did not have anyone to talk to about art or literature. What also makes him different from the other poets is the fact that he was a second generation immigrant, he was not as English as the others. During his London years, he had managed to go to art school, and his artistic background made him more aware of the colors and shapes of his surroundings: Sassoon called Rosenberg a "painter-poet" as he painted such vivid pictures in his poetry. Rosenberg's poems are not exactly about the action of war, he speaks not of battles, but of what the men are doing.…