Respond to all of the following prompts.

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  1. What connections can you make between Sassoon’s Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and one of the assigned poems?
  2. Is “A Terre” a dramatic lyric? Who is the auditor?
  3. How do both Isaac Rosenberg’s “Break of Day in the Trenches” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” convey the lived experience of the World War I soldier? In your response, cite at least one or two lines from each poem.