Suicide in the trenches

• Engels
• Hoger onderwijs

Suicide in the trenches by Siegfried Sassoon

Xanten, Lusinda and Lobke

What  do you think about when hearing about war?

Siegfried Sassoon

An English soldier who wrote about his own experiences

What kind of switch do you notice during the poem?

What's in a quatrain

1st: It's all about hope and joy about young boys going to war 

2nd: A shift to doubt and the horrors that are happening during war

3th: Critique about the glorification of war

loopgraven

Een leeuwerik (Vogel)

Soldaat

Somber

Marchere,

soldier

trenches

lark

glum

to march

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

1. ABAB
2. ABBA
3. AABB
4. ABBB

Now it's up to you!

Create and perform your own staged war poem

1) Form groups of 3.

2) Each group will assign roles: narrator, soldier and society.

3) Pay attention to intonation, convey the different emotions.

4) Make sure there are 8-12 lines divided in quartraines.

Lesson objectives

After this lesson you are able to...

1. Describe the shift in tones an moods of "suicide in the trenches"
2. Derive the meaning of an unknown word  from the context
3. Identify the rhyme scheme within the poem