Charles Sorley

Charles Hamilton Sorely was born in Scotland and studied in Oxford and Germany. When the war occured he was in Germany, however he made his way to England to join the army and fought in France. He had a short life, but a great collection of poems and one of them is "To Germany". Charles seems to be addressing the lack of drive and finality of the war because it seems they are fighting without reason. He states immediately off the back that Germany is blind like them, being France. The next few lines shows that they're just fighting to fight and they shouldn't be in this gruesome war and how its pointless. All of it is a bunch of hate and setting up lines of trenches to eventually run in the battlefield blind and take fire in attempt to take over more trenches. His next stanza begins to tell the tale of a happy ending and how everything would be more in harmony once the war ends. Those will be sad and grief together, once the peace arises. In conclusion, I ended up liking the poem after a couple of reads because of how Charles depicts the concept of war and the aftermath of it in his eyes. When reading this, his word choices definitely made me feel more attached to reality.