bayonet charge

Question 1

author

Answer 1

ted hughes

Question 2

context

Answer 2

honour his father who served in and survived world war two

focuses on a single soldier of personal pronoun “he” and follows their thoughts and actions through his desparate attempts to survive the inhumane aspects of war (could be a universal figure of represent his father)

Question 3

quotation: crawled in a threshing circle (crawled)

Answer 3

state of vulnerability and submission

or

physical effects or war, cant physically walk

or

reflects how they travel across the battlefield hiding from the enemies

Question 4

quotation: threshing circle

Answer 4

distressing image of out of control movement

a natural,agricultural term for nature damaged by war which demonstrates how the natural world has been damaged by war

Question 5

quotation: open silent

Answer 5

suggests an excruciating pain and fear so brutal that it is beyond expression or imagination

Question 6

quotation: numb

Answer 6

numb as a smashed arm

brings home the sights and sounds of war

Question 7

structure: enjambment and caesura

Answer 7

enjambment and caesura along with lines of uneven length to create irregular rhythm which mirrors the soldier struggling through the mud and struggling to cope with war

Question 8

structure: in medias res

Answer 8

riotuos ways of war

startinf the poem, covering the soldiers thoughts and actions over a short space of time which reflects the interminable confusion of war

Question 9

structure: h sounds

Answer 9

“hot” “his” “heavy”

imitates the soldiers heavy breathing as he strifes to cope with war