The Poet As Hero Analysis

World War I gave birth to many stories, and with those stories came many pieces of literature. Some of the main ones include All Quiet on the Western Front, a book by Erich Maria Remarque, “The Poet as Hero”, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon and “Who’s for the Game”, a poem by Jessie Pope. These literary pieces had some key differences. Although Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Sassoon’s “The Poet as Hero”, and Pope’s “Who’s for the Game” all shared their opinions on how soldiers should view the war, the views of All Quiet on the Western Front and “The Poet as Hero”s about the morals of the conflict were far more cynical and better conveyed than “Who’s for the Game”s as they featured a soldier’s point of view and included numerous literary devices while the message in “Who’s for the Game”s was impersonal due to the lack of …show more content…
The first aspect of All Quiet on the Western Front and “The Poet as Hero” that aided them in conveying their point was having been in the viewpoint of a soldier. Since both authors were soldiers in WWI(CITATION HERE) and wrote from the viewpoint of a soldier, their message was more persuasive. This successfully showed the different aspects of war from the people closed to it, the soldiers. Both of these pieces embodied the emotions that soldier felt towards war. First off the hardships of war were shown. For example, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque writes about one of Paul’s comrades, Kemmerich, slowly dying in the hospital, successfully illustrating how disposable soldiers’ lives were during a time of war. It also successfully showed the trauma that Paul faces after being on the battlefield using internal monologue. An example of this would be how every-day sounds, such as the screaming of tramcars, constantly startled him by resembling previous traumatic experiences. These were different aspects of war that could not have been shown through the