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quotations COTLB

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  • “cannon to the right…..”
  • “theirs not to make reply…..”
  • “half a league half a league half a league onwards!”
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quotations exposure

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  • “merciless east winds that knive us”
  • “what are we doing here?”
  • “dawn massing in the east”
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P1 intro

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both poems convey the immediate threat posed to young, vulnerable soldiers sent out to war.

  • COTLB is a real human threat
  • exposure the lack of humans is the threat
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COTLB P1

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  • repetition “cannon to the right of them….”
  • first two lines contain “to” where as the last is “in” which represents the gradual encroachment of the cannons killing the soldiers, realisation of their death.
  • “them” shows them to be a subject rather than actual people, dehumanising them.
  • fact there is no behind shows there is no going back for the soldiers.
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Exposure P1

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  • personifies nature “merciless east wind that knives us.”
  • alikens the nature to some sort of tyrannical, oppressive leader, showing the soliders to be a slave to their master.
  • quote is beginning of a pararhyme, showing the discomfort, fragmented nature of war
  • contextually, makes ppl question war.
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P2 intro

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-both poems talk of fate and destiny, and the soldier apparent suffocation of such control over these privileges.

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COTLB P2

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  • repetition “theirs not to make reply….”
  • “not” for the first two lines, “but” for the final one symbolises the priorities of the military. more concerned about duty and order than life itself.
  • repetition of “theirs” is ironic bcz it makes it seem as if the soldiers are in control but audience knows they aren’t.
  • despite being poet laurette, conveys tennyson’s distaste in the way british military operate.
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Exposure P2

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  • rhetorical question “what are we doing here”
  • rhetorical question shows they are looking for an answer, yet society as a whole cannot provide an answer as to why they are sent to war.
  • ‘we’ is ironic bcz soldiers are not actually in charge of their own destiny. trained to question themselves before authority.
  • wider contextual point questioning the moral expectations of the british public.
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P3 intro

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reflects how soldiers are heading towards an inevitable death

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P3 COTLB

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  • dactylic diameter “half a league half a league”
  • rhythm runs parallel to that of horse hooves. fast and unstoppable nature reflects how the soldiers are powerless to their inevitable death
  • purpose of this is for Tennyson to save the solider’s humility by saying it was not their fault, but the sheer power of the enemy.
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P3 exposure

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  • personification “dawn massing in the east”
  • contrasts to usual preception of hope with dawn. Instead, soldiers situation is so bleak that even dawn is deadly for them, representing how they are void of hope.
  • dawn is described using a military phrase “massing” alikening nature to a military enemy.