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Analysis and comments on The General by Siegfried Sassoon

Comment 1 of 1, added on June 11th, 2008 at 3:03 PM.

In this satirical poem "The General" he criticizes the hypocrisy and incompetence of general using lot of sarcasm and irony,which is very obvious in the last line "But he did for them both by his plan of attack".

vjosa from Macedonia



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Poet: Siegfried Sassoon
Poem: The General
Added: May 19 2005
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Poem of the Day: Sep 17 2006


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