Bayonet Charge Flashcards

1
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Who wrote Bayonet Charge?

A

Ted Hughes

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What is the opening phrase, containing an adverb, that sounds as if he’s in a confused, vulnerable state & suggests the events seem like a nightmare that is actually real?

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“Suddenly he awoke”

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What adjective has a double meaning that suggests discomfort and inexperience?

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“Raw”

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What phrase uses alliteration of ‘h’ sounds to Initiate the soldiers heavy breathing as he runs?

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“Hot” “his” “heavy”

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What quotation uses violent imagery and onomatopoeia to describe the sounds and impact of the shots?

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“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”

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What simile suggests his rifle is useless and foreshadows the injuries he’s like to get?

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“A rifle numb as a smashed arm”

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What quotations show that his patriotism has turned to fear and pain and his heroic ideals have been replaced by painful reality?

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“Patriotic tear”
“Sweating”
“Molten iron from the centre of his chest”

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What quotation shows that the second stanza pauses the action and focuses on the soldiers wondering why he is there?

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“He almost stopped”

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What quotation emphasises the soldier’s insignificance and his lack of control of his situation and implies that the people in charge of the war don’t care about individual soldiers?

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“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations”

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What simile creates an image of someone blind and irrational - suggesting there’s no rational reason for war?

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“He was running Like a man who has jumped up in the dark”

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What phrase suggests it’s as if the soldier is turned to stone by his bewilderment?

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“Statuary in mid-stride”

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What does the caesuras in stanza 2 show?

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The caesura ends his period of thought and forces him to return to reality

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What simile in the last stanza emphasises the hare’s frantic movement and hints at the danger the soldier is in?

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“Rolled like a flame”

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What quotation connotes a distressing image of out-of control movement and uses and agricultural term to suggest that nature is affected by war?

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“And crawled in a threshing circle”

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15
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What phrase suggests pain and fear beyond expression?

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“open silent”

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16
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What quotation shows reasons to go to war, using etcetera to suggest it is not worth listing?

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“King, honour, human dignity, etcetera”

17
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What simile shows that he’s been reduced and that he’s attacking out of desperation not moral principle?

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“dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”

18
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What is the final line of the poem which shows the soldier seems to have become a weapon rather than a human being and that he’s driven purely by his terror?

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“his terror’s touchy dynamite”

19
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What is the poem about?

A

The poem focuses on a single soldier’s experience of a charge towards enemy lines. It describes his thought and actions as he tries to stay alive. Overriding emotion is fear which has replaced patriotic ideals that he had held before the violence before.

20
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Whats the poems form?

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Uses enjambment and caesura and has lines of uneven length. Irregular rhythm which mirrors the soldiers struggling. Universal figure keeps the soldier anonymous

21
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Whats the poems structure?

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In medias res. First stanza sees the soldier acting on instinct. Stanza 2 the soldier thinks about his situation. Stanza 3 he gives up - lost to humanity

22
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What type of imagery and language is present?

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Violent, natural imagery and figurative language

23
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What are the feelings/attitudes to the poem?

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Terror and confusion