The world war 1 poets were brought up in a romantic era. They had the image of wars being fought with dignity. But things weren't like expected when the soldiers came to fight the war. Millions of young men were sent out to the trenches and died in the battlefield. The soldiers weren't prepared for the new guns and machinery that they had prepared for the WWI, plus; the war was fought on foreign ground in France.
Sigfried Sassoon wrote poems and articles in the Times that were critical against the war. He wrote that at the beginning, the war was about protecting the country, but at the end, it was about conquering and aggression.
The government put him in a mental hospital because of his opinions. The reason they chose a mental hospital instead of a jail was that they simply couldn't lock up a well known Marshall from the war in jail for no specific reason. That would have caused massive riots and antagonism among the people.
Nice article. it is a sad story!
SvarSlett