Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
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- Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes
- Emotions
- damage
- pain and fear beyond expression
- disorientation
- confusion
- vulnerability
- Context
- born in 1930
- he was a poet and a children's writer
- his wife committed suicide and he wrote poems about her
- by age 16 the only thing he wanted to be was a poet
- he also served in the RAF
- Language
- some military language
- similes and metaphors
- rules of three
- "suddenly he awoke"
- " - raw I raw - seamed hot knaki"
- "he lugged a rifle as numb as a smashed arm"
- "king, honour, human dignity etcetera"
- "his terrors touchy dynamite"
- Form and Structure
- enjambment and caesura
- repetition
- stanzas = 8,7,8
- irregular rhythm- struggles of the soldier
- no clear rhyme
- starts in the middle of the action
- Past and Present
- written about a war but we don't know which one
- shift in focus throughout the poem
- theme of time throughout
- there is a time shift throughout - stanza two - time stops
- Conflicts
- power of violence
- power of conflict and war
- nature and humanity
- life
- terror
- Emotions
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