War poems Flashcards
(5 cards)
-pupose is to glorfiy the biritsh rule, british solider, british colonalsism
-opposite of aguards intention’s
-aguards critisces colonalism
-both subtly critiscism, “someone had blundered”, emphasies poor decision
-aguards sublty apprecatites british history
-both are argueably a celebration of britishness
COTLB
-deep critism of imapcts of war, the indifferences of biritan
-aguard upset with indifference
-aguard talks about warrior as men, and healing for women
Exposure
-solider understanding that king and country do not mean anything
-struggles of women live on
-war between men ends
-war only leads to destruction
Bayonet charge
-terrible after effects of war, physcoligcal impacts of war on soliders
-implied damage on country
-mirrored in aguard’s poem, colonalism was justified by exporting british demoacary and civilazation
-like soliders, compared to black people growing up in britian are pyscholigcally damaged, by not knowing their true history
Remains