The effect

He'd never seen so many dead before'. The effect by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem that exemplifies what happend to the soldiers during WW1. The main idea of the poem is that ' too many men are dead'. The poem uses metaphors to understand the true feeling of the war. The metaphor 'Flapping along the fire-step like a fish,' describes the men as they fall when getting shot. The metaphors in the whole poem all describe the way them men fell and reacted to the shot they recieved. 'Who will buy my nice fresh corpses, two a penny? ' this metaphor describes how all the men were reacting to the amount of men that died and were dying. Siegfried Sassoon uses metaphors to tell a poetic story to help people understand how brutal it was when all the men were dying .