The Destruction of Sennacherib Flashcards
The commander.
‘The Assyrian’
Animal imagery.
Savage predator.
‘Wolf on the fold’
Royal action colours.
‘Purple and gold’
Outfit.
‘Cohorts’
Sibilliance.
Impressive army powerful weapons.
‘Sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea’
Northern Israel.
'’Deep Galilee’
Army is compared to nature.
Killing is natural to them.
‘Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green’
AABB rhyme scheme/.
‘Green’.
‘seen’
Fierce soldiers killed everything in sight’
‘Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
The simile contrast the living and the dying.
‘That host on the morrow lay wither’d and strown.
Incessant nature of War.
‘And’
‘And’
‘And’
Death.
God conquers the mighty animals/
‘There lay the steed with his nostril all wide’
In pain and death.
‘There lay the rider distorted and pale’
Futility of the poem.
‘The tents were all silent, the banners alone’
Unceremonious.
‘The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown’
