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    The poem describes a dying young soldier in a hospital ward during WWI. He finds brief moments of relief from pain when asleep and dreaming of floating down a river, symbolizing a peaceful death. When awake, any movement causes excruciating agony. Death eventually comes for the soldier, taking him away from his suffering. The last line notes that while this soldier may now find silence and safety, the war continues raging outside.

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    The poem describes a dying young soldier in a hospital ward during WWI. He finds brief moments of relief from pain when asleep and dreaming of floating down a river, symbolizing a peaceful death. When awake, any movement causes excruciating agony. Death eventually comes for the soldier, taking him away from his suffering. The last line notes that while this soldier may now find silence and safety, the war continues raging outside.

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    The poem describes a dying young soldier in a hospital ward during WWI. He finds brief moments of relief from pain when asleep and dreaming of floating down a river, symbolizing a peaceful death. When awake, any movement causes excruciating agony. Death eventually comes for the soldier, taking him away from his suffering. The last line notes that while this soldier may now find silence and safety, the war continues raging outside.

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    The poem describes a dying young soldier in a hospital ward during WWI. He finds brief moments of relief from pain when asleep and dreaming of floating down a river, symbolizing a peaceful death. When awake, any movement causes excruciating agony. Death eventually comes for the soldier, taking him away from his suffering. The last line notes that while this soldier may now find silence and safety, the war continues raging outside.

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    The poem describes a dying soldier's experience in a hospital ward during WWI. He finds brief relief from pain through opiates and dreams of drifting down a river, which symbolizes death. The contrast between his sleeping and waking states is emphasized, with waking bringing incredible agony. In the end, Death comes for him, and silence falls again over the ward.

    The poem is about a young soldier who is gravely injured and on his death bed in a hospital during WWI. It describes his suffering and the contrast between his dreams of drifting on a river and the agony of his waking moments until Death finally comes for him.

    The soldier's experience is described as being in terrible condition and in incredible agony whenever he is awake. The only relief he gets is when he is asleep and can drift through his mind on a river, which symbolizes a peaceful death. His waking moments are filled with such pain it's as if a beast is tearing his body apart.

    The Death Bed

    By: Siegfried Sassoon

    Presenter: Eireni Zaparegos


    Summary
    The poem begins with the speaker describing the terrible condition a young soldier is
    in. The only moments he gets any relief from the pain are those induced by opiates.
    When asleep, he can drift through his mind on a river. It is a peaceful symbol for death
    and the afterlife that the young man seems to welcome. As the poem progresses the
    contrast between his sleeping and waking worlds is further emphasized. When he
    moves, he is in incredible agony as if a beast jumped on his body and was trying to tear
    him apart. Eventually, death comes to his side, and decides it is time for him to go.
    From there, the two depart, and silence falls again over the hospital ward. The last line
    reminds the reader that the war rages on right outside the hospital.
    Structure of Poem Rhyme Scheme

    ‘The Death Bed’ by Siegfried Sassoon is a The poem does not conform to a specific
    seven stanza poem that is divide into uneven pattern of rhyme, but there are a few
    sets of lines. moments of half, or slant rhymes. This is
    accomplished through repetition and the
    strategic placement of similar end sounds.
    Referencing the half, or slant rhymes, there
    is a great example inside the first stanza
    with the words “heaped” and “sleep.”
    These two phrases are linked thru
    consonance and assonance, sleep is simply
    missing the extra “d” sound to make it a full
    rhyme.
    Narrator Tone

    The speaker is a third-person narrator who The tone for "The Death Bed" is pained,
    recounts a tale about a soldier on his ponderous and labored, “he could hear it
    deathbed. rustling through the dark”, like the
    experience of the dying young man.
    Literary Device 1 Literary Device 2

    Extended metaphor: there is a extended Repetition: ‘silence and safety’ this phrase
    metaphor of water throughout the poem, it is with its sibilant ‘s’ sounds first is used at the
    used as a peaceful and soothing force of nature. opening of the poem to describe the hospital
    The light is ‘aqueous’, water-like, as it hits the room, which is peaceful, away from the ‘guns’
    walls, and he is ‘Lipped… by the moonless and warfare. It then also extends to describe
    waves of death’. The soldier then dreams of death at the poem’s close, implying that death
    ‘Water — a sky-lit alley for his boat’, a vision of is peaceful, protective, and welcoming.
    paddling a boat up a river to take him away
    from life into the realms of death. The soothing
    ‘rain’ that occurs outside the hospital also acts
    as a calming, purifying force — a ‘trickling
    peace / Soothing and washing life away’.

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