Beat! Beat! Drums! Flashcards
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About
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- directly adresss the instruments of a miliary band, telling drums and bugle horns to raise the alarm of ear.
- these intstruments, make impossible for everyday life to continue
- patriotic call to arms and a passionate rallying cry, importance of the unions cause
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vital disruptiveness of war
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- illustrates war’s potentions.
- vital, cost country must be willing to pay
- call to action
- war, violent, chatoic
-acknowledgement of the ways in which war unsettles society
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the bugles and drums
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- symbolise war
- common, inspire, helped organise them during battles (synces with marching orders)
4
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refrain
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line, regulary repeats
- emphatic and forceful
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consonance
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- same consonat sound repeats
6
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free verse
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- relies on refrain for structure
7
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context
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- beginning of the civil war
- written after battle of bull run, devasting
