Bayonet charge Flashcards
What structure device does hudges show?
Enjambment
What does enjambment suggests?
Just like the solider is thrown into a chaotic and disordered waking into the battle the enjambment reflects just like the solider the readers struggle to make sense of the chaos and disorder of the structure of the poem
Hugdes also uses a number of what?
Similes such as ‘sweating like molten’ and ‘rolled like a flame’
Why does Hugdes uses a number of similes?
Because he cannot describe it and has to revert back to using similes to say what it is like because he cannot say what it is because it is so awful, war is indescribable.
What does the writer saw which is immediate and showes confusion?
‘Suddenly he awoke and he was running raw-in raw’
What does Hugdes say about the nature of soliders during war?
‘His terror, touchy dynamite’
What does Hugdes say that goes out the window when in battle of a war?
‘King, honour, human dignity (etectera)
