Comparing the poem Dreamers to the play Journeys End

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Timothy Voss 11JL

Comparing the poem Dreamers to the play Journeys End

The play Journeys End by R.C Sherriff is about the some British troops in the First World War and what happened to them and there experiences. The poem Dreamers by Siegfried Sasson  is similar it is about World War One it is an universal view off what it was like In the war. The play and poem can be compared by seeing how the characters and events of journeys end compares to the view of the war by Siegfried Sasson dreamers.

In the poem Dreamers he writes “soldiers are citizens of deaths grey land.” This could imply that the soldiers are citizens of the county that they are fighting in, as they have been there such a long time and there battle ground has become there second home. The quotation “Deaths grey land” this is quote is very visual and imagery it make u think about what it must of looked like, it also make it sound like death is alive and is waiting at the battle field for the next soldier. This quote can be compared to Journeys End as deaths grey land is similar to no mans land as many people are killed there and meet death himself.

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“drawing no dividend from times tomorrows” suggests that most soldiers fighting will die and get nothing to show for there services,  like with Osborne and Raleigh there lives were lost and nothing was to show for it.

        

        “In the great hour of destiny they stand” the dictions great hour makes it sound like that ever soldier and every war has a moment when everything is good right. Also it makes the soldiers sound like they are being heroic and risking there life for there country. The diction destiny is used to imply if you go to war ...

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