Sassoon is shown to be strong minded and wilful through using emotive language to take on a leadership role of the other men, he was the voice of collective, yet in doing this he was not portrayed at being pompous. This is shown when he says 'I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops'.
Sassoon is also shown to be honest and passionate as he believes he has the right to express his opinions on the war because he experienced it first hand, he does this by using declaratives such as 'I have seen'. This is effective as by presenting his thoughts as facts, more people will take an interest than if they were just seen as his personal thoughts.
The use of repetition and alliteration shows the continuous, harsh conditions of the war. He repeats 'suffering' throughout the poem to present the on-going cycle of suffering and the alliteration of 'callous complacency' gives the sound 'c' as dissonant, relating to the effects and expectations of war.
Lastly, Sassoon uses religious imagery of war he 'believes to be evil and unjust', he does this to relate to what religious people may class as evil. Also to represent how, like in war people turned to God for saviour as he was the most powerful thing, he is turning to religious imagery to class as something so horrific as evil.
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