bayonet charge Flashcards
suddenly he awoke and was running raw, In raw-seamed khaki ,his sweat heavy
in media res
war is like an unnatural awakening
as if real normal life is a dream and we are suddenly awakening to war
raw
repetition of raw and enshamnent of war enphasises how painful war is not just physically but mentally
homophone the sounds of war has woken him up from normal life into Terry
chose raw bc spelled backwards it spell war
the speed
he contrast the experience with war with the dream of real life he does this by the speed as he intro duress the verb running idea of it happening suddenly idea od true speed however contrastedwiththe fact that this sentence doesn’t end for a long time give the poem a kind of breathnessless mimicking the breathlessness of the soldier either running to his death or to escape it
another contrast is that the thing that is surpposed to protect him is turning agains him kanji is the material of the uniform became hot as if attacking him attacking at the seams witch is making his skin raw
litteral -where the fleas would be
raw backward war convoys
the repetition of the s sound slow the momentum giving effect that is his trapped in time exposed and can be shot at at any time
a heavy sweat
he is so desperate to escape even the swear is weighing him down
bullets smacking my belly out of the air he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
comical with the alliteration of bullet and belly and smoking comical image person sonifacation of the air have a fat belly converse the soldier feeling of relief and amusement that he is not being killed by these bullets instead they are making this smoked belly sound irony because if they soak his belly he dies but the wind takes much lesser damage
simile of he arm being useless convey how he would be if the bullet hit him
he describes Iit as number witch conveys how he is suppressing his feeling and fears he is nt able to
time slowing down assonance lug and numb slow sound of the letter u
form
8 lines the first on 7 in the second and 8 again in last
not a propper pattern
he play with both iambic and trochaic rhythem
in what cold clockworks of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing the second?he was running
a question that demand an answer this question comescto him in a moment of stillness in his mind while his body is still furiously moving
giving us a great moment of clarity introduces his main idea
cold clockwork of the stars represent fate cold suggest that there is an unfeeling god that does not care about the suffering of the soldiers
by say and the nations suggest that that patriatisim and pollution contribute to this fate he as been complicit to is by lying the proper gander
he joined up patriotically then realised that that was a stupid thing to do as he put himself to death for no purpose
no purpose becau he is just the hand of the clock pointing the second -imagening every second a new life was exposed ever ticking of the clock is another man slaughter this meterphor suggest that death is unstoppable the cold clockwork has ben wound up and he can not escape the inevitable
hand pointing -proper gander posters
threw up a yellow. hare that rolled like a flam and crawled in a threshing circle ,its mouth wide
fast movements -threshing ,rolled
described as very slow -threshing around in a circle ,crawled rolled this creatures exposing itself to death -hare is the symbol of the soldier himself
irony hare has connotation of fast
a mad as a March hare
poet is using that ironically bc it conveys the soldiers madness in war
contrast in the speed he needs to move to the speed he is actually moving
imagery of the har bing a thresher -corn being cut -common biblical image of life being cut allusion
virus such as rolling and circle -war is never ending imagery in this moment
war itself is something we cannot escape pesumably he is imagining a world war 3 in the future
1950 -russia and nuclear threat
heat of the flame -hot kati
fir meaning of threw up -apparein out of no where
threw up with sick convoys the soldiers sickness in the moment his fare of war
nature
nature has been attacked and this hair is behaving in ways that are completely unnatural emfasied on the different colour yellow
yellow -convays cowerdiss yellow also conveys happiness bizarre contrast to his fear and the hair fear
show how nature should be feeling happy and free
unfree locked in this threshing circle and facing immanent death
yellow colour of vomit connect with throwing up
yellow hare convoy the innocent and angelic features of a young soldier having blond hair
alluded to its sound a homophone for being blond
king ,honour ,human dignityty dropped like lucturiess
interesting contrast of speed
big ideas are dropped really quickly
contrast to the soldier who is running to slowly and the hair who is running quickly and getting nowhere
patriotism ,honour is a pester social contract that does not not come to mind when you are fates with bullies etcetera meaning these thing are ridiculous seamed important in his dream state
got this clear clarity that life and living is what important not this silly social constructs we are fighting for
another way of t
looking at this triplet is that these or are the things that justify going to war realising those reason are ridiculous
