The Death Bed

Click on the link to the Oxford First World War Poetry unit on Sassoon and work your way through as many of the poems/letters as you wish.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/education/tutorials/intro/sassoon/death_bed.html

Explanatory Notes not covered in Oxford tutorials.

Weir: A dam in a stream; an enclosure in a waterway for taking fish.