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Dreamers. By Siegfried Sassoon. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win. Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives. Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin.
‘Dreamers’ by Siegfried Sassoon speaks on the inner lives of soldiers fighting in the trenches of World War I. The poem begins with the speaker describing how soldiers reside in the land of death and how their profession makes them subject to a more certain destiny.
“Dreamers” appears in Siegfried Sassoon’s well-known poetry collection Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918). This sonnet features how the world views soldiers in contrast to the way Sassoon saw them. They are dreamers, filled with heroism, and ready to dedicate their lives for the sake of their motherland.
‘Dreamers’ is a poem by the British poet of the First World War, Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). Written while Sassoon was convalescing at Craiglockhart Hospital, ‘Dreamers’ is a poem which contrasts the realities of war with the soldiers’ longing for home and domestic comfort and security.
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin. They think of firelit homes, clean beds and wives. I see them in foul dug—outs, gnawed by rats, And in the ruined trenches, lashed with rain, Dreaming of things they did with balls and bats, And mocked by hopeless longing to regain. Bank—holidays, and picture shows, and spats,
Dreamers. Siegfried Sassoon. 1886 –. 1967. Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win.
Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. In the great hour of destiny they stand, Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows. Soldiers are...
