Mametz Wood - Sheers (WAR)

Question 1

Wasted (P)

Answer 1

‘The wasted young’ (Fragility of youth)

Question 2

Egg (P)

Answer 2

‘The broken bird’s egg of a skull’ (Brutality of war)

Question 3

Walk (P)

Answer 3

‘Told to walk not run’ (Juxtaposes the powerful and powerless)

Question 4

Foreign (P)

Answer 4

‘Like a wound working foreign body to the surface of the skin’ (Healing of nature)

Question 5

Absent (P)

Answer 5

‘Slipped from their absent tongues’ (Untold stories of the past)