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Similarities
- Theme of war
- Poem shows the impact and effects of war 'a chit of bone', 'in boots that outlasted them' and 'blown hinge of his lower jaw', 'punctured lung', 'sweating unexploded mine'
- Reconnection and rediscovering
- Written about an experience
- 'China plate of a shoulder plate' and 'porcelain collar bone'
- Listing of body parts - damage and injury 'a chit of bone the china plate of a shoulder blade', 'broken bird's egg of a skull' and 'blown hinge of his lower jaw', 'damaged porcelain collar bone', 'parachute silk of his punctured lung', 'climb the rungs of his broken ribs'
- Structure is fragmented and uneven
- Use of enjambment - fragmented
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Differences
- MW - Battle of the Somme
- M - Bosnian War
- MW - horrific images are created 'mid dance macabre', 'socketed heads tilted back at an angle'
- MW - strange yet interesting images 'like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin'
- M - journey of rediscovery of her husband 'widened the search'
- MW - rediscovering the dead, giving the soldiers a voice and remembering them
- MW - extreme pathos and sympathy is created 'in boots that outlasted them'
- MW - use of alliteration 'for years after the farmers found them'
- MW - use of onomatopoeia 'socketed heads tilted back at an angle' - sound of the machine guns which shot them down
- M - half and full rhyme
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