To My Brother

Read 'To My Brother' by 'Siegfried Sassoon' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

To My Brother by Siegfried Sassoon

 Give me your hand, my brother, search my face; 
Look in these eyes lest I should think of shame; 
For we have made an end of all things base. 
We are returning by the road we came. 

Your lot is with the ghosts of soldiers dead, 
And I am in the field where men must fight. 
But in the gloom I see your laurell’d head 
And through your victory I shall win the light.

Form: Iambic Pentameter Comments

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