Bayonet Charge

Question 1

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air “

Answer 1

Personification brings out the sense of hell to the battlefield

Question 2

Patriotically tear that had brimmed in his eye

Answer 2

Personification and emotive language

Question 3

“Bewilderment then he almost stopped “

Answer 3

Confusion about the process of war and his actions during war

Seems on real, the caesura underlines the confusion

Question 4

Quotes

Answer 4

“Suddenly he awoke”
“Hey sweat heavy “

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Patriotic year that had brimmed in his eye”
“Bewilderment then he almost stopped “
“Cold clockwork of the stars and nations”
“Yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
“King, honour, human dignity”
“His terror touchy dynamite”

Question 5

Running lugged plunged

Answer 5

As the poem progresses the soldiers movements breaking down as he realises his actions

This word for the iterates the determination to survive creates an atmosphere of pain suffering and barbarity

Question 6

Dense repetition

Answer 6

The letter H represented the heavy breathing of the soldier

Question 7

Free verse

Answer 7

Lack of order in the emotional change of the soldier

Question 8

Enjambment-

Answer 8

Shows he doesn’t have time to stop and think. Further emphasises the contrast between his movement and his fear. Standard ones in Enjambement to mimics the action of the running

Question 9

Irregular stanzas

Answer 9

First and third stanza is full of action where my second stanza slows the pace of the poem down

Question 10

Caesuras

Answer 10

These cause a sense of confusion and conflict for the reader. And we experience the confusion. Break the flow of the poem suggests a sense of halting breathing

Question 11

Threshing circle

Answer 11

Metaphor for mystical hair symbolises savage nature and innocence the hair is watching evil golf upon nature suggest pain bring home to sights and sounds of war