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The General by Siegfried Sassoon

10/7/2008 2:11:02 PM

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Siegfried Sassoon
(1886 - 1967 / England)

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The General

‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said
When we met him last week on our way to the line. .........
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Siegfried Sassoon

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Pierre Durhomme (10/20/2007 10:40:00 AM)
I have always admired Sassoon's prose, but his (anti) war poetry is just superb. This simple poem says so much about upper class stupidity in the Great War... and that last line is heart wrenching. I love it!

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