bayonet quotations
“like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs listening between his footballs for the reason of his still running” - simile, creates an image of someone blind and irrational
“threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame” - rolled like a flame, simile emphasises the hare’s frantic movement and hints at the danger the soldiers in
“His terror’s touchy dynamite” -soldier seems to have become a weapon rather than a human being. he’s driven purely by his terror
ozy quotations
“stand in the desert” - the setting suggests an absence of life and vitality.
“my name is Ozymandias King of Kings” arrogant and powerful - he even challenged other rules
“the hand that mock’d them” - ‘Man’ can mean to ridicule, or to create a likeness of something perhaps the sculptor intended his statue to make fun of Ozymandias.
charge of light brigade quotes
“all the world wondered” - could mean ppl marvelled at their bravery or they wondered why they had been sent on the charge.
“rode the six hundred” - presented as one group with one purpose”
“Honour the charge they made. Honour the light brigade” - this command is repeated to leave the reader with the idea they should honour the cavalry
London quotes
In every cry of every man, in every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every man” - repetition, emphasises feeling go bleakness - despair affects everyone and there’s no relief from it.
“I wander through each chartered shred” - first person narrator personalises the poem and makes it street more real, ‘wander’ sounds purposeless - reflects how he feel powerless to change what’s happening, ‘each chat stret’ the whole city is affected not just one area.
“marriage hearse” - oxymoron, links the happy image of marriage with death, suggests that everything has been destroyed.
poppies quotes
“a single dove’ - doves are a symbol of peace but also mourning.
‘like a wishbone’ - simile, strong visual image hints at her wish for his safety
hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind’ - hoping to hear, alliteration echos the way she’s straining to hear him, links leaving to join the army with leaving to go to school
war photographer quotes
“he has a job to do” - short, simple sentence using monosyllabic words -he has to put his emotions aside, like a soldier does
“his hands, which did not tremble then” - irony, he was calm in face of horrors, but now they affect him
“they do not care” - this is ambiguous, it could refer to the readers of the newspapers who didn’t care about the victims of war, or it could refer to the wider world, which is apathetic about others suffering
