Bayonet Charge Flashcards
Who wrote the poem
Ted hughes
Form
Enjambment and ceasura and lines of uneven length. Creates an irregular rhythm which might mirror the soldier struggling in the mud .
The soldier could be any one , a universal figure
Structure
Starts in in medias red and covers the soldiers movements. First stanza - instinct , second stanza - thinking about his situation in the final stanza he gives up his thoughts and ideals and seems to have lost his humanity
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Suddenly he awoke
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Bullets smacking the air out of the wind
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Quote a rifle numb as a smashed arm- foreshadows
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Patriotic tear - turned into fear and pain his heroic ideals has been replaced with painful reality
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He almost stopped - questioning why he is there
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Like a man who jumped up in the dark and runs - war is irrational
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Statuary - biwilderness , turned to stone, ceasura forces him to reality
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Rolled like a flame - emphasises the frantic movement and danger he is in
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King , honour , human dignity , etcetera - persuade people to go to war . Identity
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His Terrors touchy dynamite - become a weapon rather than a human being - driven purely by terror
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Stumbling , running
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