Snaith // Mametz Wood Notes 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureUnseen poetryGCSEWJEC Created by: flynnmackieCreated on: 22-11-17 14:02 For years afterwards the farmers found them Shows the longevity of war, and the fact that the bodies had once been men 1 of 12 wasted young Details how their lives had been cut short and wasted 2 of 12 broken bird’s egg of a skull, Depicts a graphic image showing the fragility of human life 3 of 12 walk, not run Sets the somber and chilling pace of the poem 4 of 12 towards the wood and its nesting machine guns Implies that death is imminent, and they are marching towards it 5 of 12 earth stands sentinel This shows how the earth seems to remember what happened, and the grotesque of it all 6 of 12 like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin Makes the body seem to be trying to dispel the 'wounds' left by the war 7 of 12 twenty men buried in one long grave Vivid, horrid description reminds of the results and consequences of war 8 of 12 skeletons paused mid dance Implies of the youth of the soldiers who died 9 of 12 socketed heads tilted back at an angle Gives the impression of how shocked the bodies would be at the actuallity of war 10 of 12 their jaws, those that have them Reminds how bodily-destroying war can be 11 of 12 absent tongues The only definite in war- absence of life 12 of 12
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