Bayonet Charge Flashcards
1
Q
khaki, his
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caesura reflects how he is impeded by his uniform
2
Q
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
A
plosive alliteration- natural elements are wounded - air is winded
3
Q
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations /
Was he the hand pointing that second?
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- “leap into existential enquiry”- simon armitage
- caesura - pause for thought
- harsh consonance which captures the cruelty of this moment ‘cold’ - unfeeling
- ‘stars’ - fate; ‘nations’ - politicians
essentially saying: what are the odds that he ends up in this situation?
4
Q
still running
A
- verb is made into a noun here
- FUTILITY of war
5
Q
To get out of that blue crackling air
His terror’s touchy dynamite.
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poem ends with a sense of volatility and uncertainty
6
Q
Hughes quote on the war
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“the big, ever present, overshadowing thing…” - Hughes
7
Q
Simon Armitage quote
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“leap into existential enquiry”- Simon Armitage
8
Q
Professor Dennis Walder quote
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Hughes was a “war poet at one remove” - Professor Dennis Walder
