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A paper which looks at the meeting between Owen and Sassoon at Craiglockert, the circumstances behind their being sent to the hospital, and the influence which Sassoon had on Owen's perspective on the war and the development of his writing. Bibliography lists 6 sources
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cultural and economic backgrounds, such a setting under such circumstances would probably have been the only way in which they could ever have encountered each other on any sort of
social level. As Graeme (2003) points out, before World War 1 Sassoon could be regarded as the typical English sporting gentleman, the child of wealthy parents who had been educated
at Marlborough and Cambridge. Despite the fact that he never graduated and, as Graeme notes, was disinherited from the family fortune, his personal income was sufficient for him to pursue
a comfortable upper-class lifestyle. Owen, on the other hand was, as Graeme points out, from
very humble origins in comparison. He was born in rural Shropshire, the son of a rail worker, and educated in Shrewsbury and Liverpool: unable to afford University fees, he became
a teacher in France, and whilst he was resident there, the First World War broke out. His views, at the time, on warfare can perhaps best be exemplified in The
Ballad of Peace and War, in which he asserted Oh meet it is and passing sweet To live at peace with others, But sweeter still and far more meet To
die in war for brothers. Certainly at this point it is evident that he regards dying for ones country as truly dulce et decorum: a perspective which was to change
after his later experiences, and his meeting with Sassoon. He suffered from shellshock in 1917
as a result of his part in the British attack on the Hindenberg Line and was sent to Craiglockert for treatment: Graeme comments that this seems to be the point
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