Bayonet Charge and Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

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What perspective?

Answer 1

Third person singular

Question 2

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Why is this perspective used?

Answer 2

Gives a limited narrative
Allows the reader to focus on the individual impact of war by showing the way war impacts a single individual

Question 3

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Alternative interpretation of perspective?

Answer 3

Emphasises isolation, from any source of help or comfort
Intensifies the suffering; self-preservation

Question 4

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What is the irony about the focus of the poem?

Answer 4

Focus on emotions, they were expected to show no emotions, and how the solder referenced cannot share his feelings with his peers

Question 5

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How is the solider depicted?

Answer 5

Depicted as desensitised to the harshness of war, appears immune to the deaths of other soldiers, and it takes the suffering of nature to break his trance-like state