bayonet charge
- Created by: rebecca
- Created on: 15-05-13 16:34
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- Bayonet Charge
- context
- served in RAF
- Common themes
- countryside, mythology human history
- Poet Laureate
- Language and Imagery
- to present feelings
- sound
- repetition
- repeated h of heavy breathing
- imagery
- rich descriptions
- running towards 'green hedge'
- simple, childlike
- ocntrast
- imagery of war
- imagery of nature
- hare = image of death
- farming imagery
- simile = hell to battle field line 8
- Structure and Form
- filled with words and images suggesting thick mud which he is running through - main theme
- varying length of lines
- suggest the quick and slow movement of the solider
- 1st stanza
- about action and running
- flow broken by the use of dashes
- soldier is starting to wake up and realise what is happening
- flow broken by the use of dashes
- about action and running
- second stanza in slow motion
- lines broken by punctuation
- 3rd stanza rushes towards his death
- Ideas themes
- steps inside the body and mind of solider
- dramatizes struggle between mans thoughts and actions
- stanza 1 blind obedience
- 2. time stands still as he thinks about what he is doing
- moments of clarity
- at the end moral justifications become meaningless
- king and country
- becomes a human bomb - a weapon of war over a human
- subject matter
- unusual for author
- countryside, mythology human history
- nameless soldier in ww1
- experience of going over the top - one nameless solider
- turns solider from living thinking solider into a dangerous weapon of war
- unusual for author
- context
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