The line in the excerpt that attacked the myth that the sacrifices of soldiers are remembered and valued is in the first text, in the 4th line: “no one spoke of him again.”
The excerpt is taken from “Suicide in the Trenches”, written by Siegfried Sassoon.
The excerpt of the text is:
In Winter trenches, cowed and glum,
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet in his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), wrote the poem “Suicide in the Trenches” that refers to his experience during World War I. The poem was published in “Cambridge Magazine” in February 1918.
