| 词条 | Suicide in the Trenches |
| 释义 |
"Suicide in the Trenches" is one of the many poems the English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) composed in response to World War I, reflecting his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was a brave and gallant upper-class officer who eventually opposed the war, but he never lost his admiration for the common soldiers who had to fight it. Sassoon felt contempt for the political leaders and civilian war hawks who, safe in their power and comfort, sent young men off to die in huge battles that seemed futile and pointless. It was first published February 23, 1918 in Cambridge Magazine,[1] then in Sassoon's collection: Counter-Attack and Other Poems. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter[2] and consists of twelve lines in three stanzas.[3] The poem exemplifies the sensibility of war poets in "avoid[ing] sentimentality and self-pity while describing the realities of war".[4] It tells of the suicide of a young man sent off to war and attacks the "'smug-faced' crowds who greet the returning soldiers".[5] This is one of the poems referenced when Copp states, "It was with poems like these that Sassoon, more than any other trench poet writing in English, brought home to an uninformed public the true reality of the ghastly nature of the war."[1] Cultural referencesIn 2009, Brian Blessed read the poem within the song "Army of the Damned", part of the album Beneath the Veiled Embrace by the band Pythia.[6] The English rock star Pete Doherty set this poem to music and performs it sometimes during live performances. He also recited it along with his partner Carl Barât during the 2004 NME Awards with his band The Libertines. Notes1. ^1 {{cite book|last=Copp|first=Michael|title=Cambridge Poets of the Great War: An Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hnOoeU-y7PoC&lpg=PA60&dq=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&f=false|year=2001|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press|isbn=9780838638774|pages=60–61}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Revision:Suicide_in_the_Trenches_-_Sassoon|title=Revision:Suicide in the Trenches - Sassoon|work=The Student Room}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/suicide.html|title=Siegfried Sassoon: Suicide in the Trenches|publisher=}} 4. ^{{cite book|last=Heyck|first=Thomas William|title=A History of the Peoples of the British Isles, Volume 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gq84779CwC0C&lpg=PA165&dq=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&f=false|year=2002|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415302333|page=165}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Davies|first=Simon|title=The Hell Where Youth and Laughter Went: Poetry of the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M_9LBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA74&dq=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q=%22suicide%20in%20the%20trenches%22&f=false|year=2014|publisher=Simon Davies|isbn=9781499603590|page=74}} 6. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.metal-archives.com/reviews/Pythia/Beneath_the_Veiled_Embrace/248538/ |title=Brian Blessed’s stentorian narrations of British anti-war poetry|accessdate=2011-05-02}} External links{{Wikisource|Suicide in the Trenches}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Suicide In The Trenches}}{{WWI-stub}}{{poem-stub}} 3 : World War I poems|1918 poems|Works about suicide |
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