Flag
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- Flag
- Countries and Pride
- Pride Causes Conflict
- The flag is a symbol of patriotism
- Highlights the power of the Symbol
- The flag can inspire Loyalty and great bravery
- First Stanza
- "brings a nation to its knees."
- The flag has great power that causes surrender
- End stopping
- Enjambment reflects movement of flags
- adds finality to flags power
- "what is that fluttering in the breeze"
- a childs voice asking a question
- "fluttering"- onomatopoeia that suggests gentle/peaceful
- "brings a nation to its knees."
- Structure of questions and answers
- Rhetorical question adds to mystery
- Syllabols 8,6,8
- Rigid structure
- Second Stanza
- "its just a piece of cloth"
- Repetition to emphasise how flag is nothing and still it has power over people
- "guts of men grow bold"
- alliteration, Imagery- Terror
- Agard criticizes that people ignore a sense of right and wrong for patriotism
- "its just a piece of cloth"
- Third Stanza
- "dares the coward"
- Challenges the soldiers to give up the fight.
- Personifies the Flag
- "coward" shows that those who do not fight are weak"
- "dares the coward"
- Fourth Stanza
- "blood you Bleed"
- Cynical tone
- direct address
- More chilling as imagine own mortality
- Plosive alliteration
- Abrupt Sound
- "blood you Bleed"
- Last Stanza
- "How can I possess such a Cloth
- The first speaker still views the flag as something to be in awe of
- "Then blind your conscience to the end"
- Says that people are blinded by patriotism and propaganda
- Ultimatly led to death
- "How can I possess such a Cloth
- Countries and Pride
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