O jesus make it stop. Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem about 'going over the top', that uses imagery and metaphors to serve the main idea. The main idea of the poem is that the situation is hopeless and the men are desperate.The sight imagery is best exemplified by "lines of grey.....masked with fear" telling us how the soldiers were hiding away their feelings not wanting to show what they really felt and how it was like. As well as "hope with furtive eyes and grappling fists" shows us how the soldiers are hopeless and that hope is as if avoiding the soldiers. And an example of auditory (sound) imagery is "the barrage roars and lifts" which emphases how harsh war was and how the barrage is like a monster, something horrific. Siegfried Sassoon uses imagery and metaphors to show how the soldiers were hopeless and desperate.
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