bayonet charge Flashcards
'’suddenly he awoke running raw ‘’
connotes/hints to death - slaughtered animal - men become animalistic became of gruesomeness of war.
flesh stripped skin gruesome imagery
immense pain and torture agony torment discomfort - skinning
disease- decay
running - he is in need of escaping and getting out of the gruesome atmosphere’’ blue crackling air.
stumbling cross a field of clouds towards a green hedge
green hedge - symbolic of life and freedom - the solder is attempting to escape clearly he is in again and needs got get out
closes - he is trapped between the lumps of earth and confined- mirroring his confinement in having to honour his country -he is confined to the expectation of society for him to be patriotic however this is an inhuman expectation
the author wants to highlight that War and or being patriotic it is brutal - dehumanising and apathetic
clods -he is in a danger zone and id probably in a lot of fear because he is at risk of being blow up clods means blown / lumps up earth.
