Bayonet Charge
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 23-05-18 12:41
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- Bayonet Charge
- Form
- Free verse/long sentences/emjambment
- Caesura/lines of uneven length/irregular rhythm
- Anonymous "he"
- Structure
- Three stanzas
- Context
- Wrote poems inspired by nature
- Father was a World War I veteran
- Poem is about experiences in World War I
- Quotes
- "Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw/In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy"
- "bullets smacking the belly out of the air"
- "dazzled with rifle fire"
- "lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm"
- "The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye/Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"
- "In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations/Was he the hand pointing that second?"
- "King, honour, human dignity, et cetera/Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm/To get out of that blue crackling air/His terror's touchy dynamite"
- "a yellow hare that rolled like a flame"
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