Base Details Quotes

Question 1

Alitteration quotes

Answer 1

Puffy petulant faces

Question 2

Alitteration

Answer 2

You’d see me with my puffy petulant face, guzzling and gulping in the best hotel

Question 3

Quotes that shows Siegefried Sassoon disliking the majors

Answer 3

“Fat”
“Bald”
“Short of breath”
“Puffy petulant faces”
“Toddly safely home and die-in bed”
“Reading the roll of honour; poor young chap”

Question 4

Author of the poem

Answer 4

Siegefried Sassoon

Question 5

Name of the poem

Answer 5

Base Details

Question 6

Rhyme

Answer 6

“And when the war is done and youth stone dead, id toddle safely home and die - in bed”

Question 7

Theme

Answer 7

“Base Details,” a satirical war poem by the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, takes aim at the military elite of World War I—the “scarlet Majors” who live indulgent, lavish lives while sending young men to die in their thousands. The poem shows how the war created two very different parallel experiences: the distant yet all-powerful role of those in charge, and the horrific lived reality of those doing the actual fighting. “Base Detail