Futility
- Created by: Serena_Payne
- Created on: 14-05-16 16:03
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- Futility
- Purpose
- An injured solider
- Probably dead
- Set in France WW1
- Poet question point of life
- An injured solider
- Structure
- Stanzas begins with command.
- Link to soldier orders.
- Half rhyme "seeds" and "sides"
- Makes poem less formal
- Stanzas begins with command.
- Imagery
- Personifies nature.
- Powerful but helpless
- "fields half sown"
- Powerful but helpless
- Sun is a metaphor of God
- Even God is defenceless of war
- Personifies nature.
- Language
- "clays of a cold star"
- "thou hast made me out of clay"
- Reference to life of Earth.
- God brought Earth to life but cant stop war.
- Reference to life of Earth.
- "thou hast made me out of clay"
- "whispering"
- Private anxiety or dread
- "clays of a cold star"
- Tone
- Past and Present tense
- Contrast with soldiers home and current life.
- Emotive effect
- Contrast with soldiers home and current life.
- Past and Present tense
- Purpose
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