Bayonet Charge Flashcards
1
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Context
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Dad served in ww1 and was traumatised
2
Q
Enjambment
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Used between lines and reflects the chaos and disorderly nature of war
3
Q
Caesura
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Used mid line where it is written ‘was he the man pointing that second?’ Forcing us to stop like that of the soldier
4
Q
Patriotism
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‘King, honour, human dignity etcetra’ criticising and mocking the reasons for war
5
Q
Effect on nature
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‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’
‘Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’ - yellow associates with cowardice
6
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‘His terrors touchy dynamite’
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Metaphor where he will blow up on the Germans or he will die or how he will survive and explode
