Homework Task: Research Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Part of your controlled assessment will be to explore the poet’s message in each of the poems. This will be a much easier task if you know something about them! This weekend, spend some time researching Siegfried Sassoon. The links below will get you started:

Siegfried Sassoon

• Wikipedia Entry – further links and information available from the references at the bottom.
• BBC History – Historical and biographical information about the poet
• Poetry Archive – Listen to some readings of his other poems

Concentrate on what Sassoon may have been trying to achieve in his poems – what message did he want to deliver to his readers? Why write the poems he did?

The other two poets you will be studying poetry by are: Alison Fell and Daljit Nagra. It may be worth spending some time looking up information about them too.