Base Details (Regeneration)

Regeneration tells the story of a group of British soldiers treated for trauma during the First World War. Among them, famous poet Siegfried Sassoon, who is sent to Craiglockhart because of his criticism of the continuation of the war. There he meets fellow soldier Wilfred Owen, whom Sassoon encourages to keep on writing to later become the most famous of the War Poets.
In this scene, Sassoon's "Base Details" serves to introduce his view of the war to Dr. Rivers, the one responsible for the treatment, showing his criticism and satirizing those making decisions to send young soldiers to their deaths.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap,"
I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

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