What is Sheers intention of the theme for Mametz wood?
To see the modern perspective on conflict and how this haunts us almost a century later
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Sheers develops an idea of the land being wounded and in need of healing, what does this suggest?
War is a crime against nature and the earth suffers and gives up the broken bodies
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What effect does this have?
It shows how regardless of what happened all those years ago, the consequences are echoed down the years
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What imagery does Sheers use to express the fragility of the soldiers?
'A chit of bone, the china plate of shoulder blade'
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What does a 'relic' of a finger mean?
Suggests some kind of sainthood.
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What does the Change of tense do for the poem?
Shows what the discovery of these bodies mean today
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Whats your interpretation of 'absent tongues'?
They seem to be asking why we are still fighting
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The longer lines very clearly break up the neat form of the poetry what does this suggest?
The uneven ploughed field or the chit of bone rising to the ground
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What does the form of alliteration do for the poem?
the 'f' sound are soft and the 'b' sounds are harsh perhaps the echos of the gunfire.
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The visual image of the soldiers heads being thrown back by the impact is suddenly switched in the final stanza, what does this suggest?
Their heads are back and jaws open because they are singing or shocked
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Where is pathetic fallacy used and why?
the farmers who 'tended the land'. Its as if the land needs healing.
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How does Mametz wood compare with Futility?
Both are about the death of ordinary mean. Contrast the images of men and earth and the concern of memory of the dead. Owens Seems angry at the indifference of nature to fate of innocent men. Sheers more deeper to the two elements.
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How does Poppies compare?
Direct approach to death and mourning. Sheers tries to reach back into history. Weirs shows how the memory of a loved one is painfully fresh.
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Sheers develops an idea of the land being wounded and in need of healing, what does this suggest?
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War is a crime against nature and the earth suffers and gives up the broken bodies
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