The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that co...mbination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble about soldiers in Mr. Siegfried Sassoon's poetry ... is that they are the kind of people who in a railroad train have ...to travel with their backs to the engine. Peace can have but few corners softly padded enough for such sensitives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the past is just the same,--and War's a bloody game. . . . Have you forgotten yet? . . .... Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back With dying eyes and lolling heads, those ashen-gray... Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,... And speed glum heroes up the line to death,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »