Bayonet Charge And Remains

Question 1

Suddenly he awoke

Answer 1

Medias res to show he’s confused and vulnerable and launched straight into action like a nightmare

Question 2

Hot khaki his sweat heavy

Answer 2

Repeated h sound imitates the soldiers breathing

Question 3

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

Answer 3

Violent imagery and onomatopoeia describes the sound and impact of the shots

Question 4

A rifle as a smashed arm

Answer 4

Simile suggested rifle as useless for shadows. The injuries he is likely to get.

Question 5

“Patriotic tear,” to “sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest,”

Answer 5

His patriotism has turned to fear and pain his heroic ideals have been replaced by painful reality. Connotes extreme pain

Question 6

“ in bewilderment, then he almost stopped-“

Answer 6

This stanza pauses the action focuses on the soldier wondering why he is there

Question 7

“ in what cold clockwork of the stars in the Nations

Answer 7

Emphasises the soldiers insignificant and its lack of control of his situation. Cold implies that the people in charge of the world don’t care about individual soldiers. Realises that he has no control when the faint and unfeeling nations have led him here he is just a cog

Question 8

“ he was running like a man jumped up in the dark and runs,”

Answer 8

Simile creates an image of someone blind in a rational suggesting there is no rational reason for war

Question 9

Extensive sensory language “blinded” “deafened” “rubbed raw”

Answer 9

Multi sensory overwhelming and chaotic experience. Shows bewilderment and extreme confusion. Shows disorientation at loss of motivation plus reality of war.

Question 10

“ a yellow hair that rolled like a flame and crawled in a threshing circle it’s mouth wide,”

Answer 10

Violent image of suffering reminds him of danger. The suffering is too severe to express.

Question 11

“ King on a human dignity et cetera drops like luxuries and the yelling alarm,”

Answer 11

Higher morale and patriotic principles of no use or dropped symbolising for patriotism and duty, et cetera is dismissive

Question 12

“his terrors touchy dynamite,”

Answer 12

Dynamite is destructive but needs to spark his terror has ignited his survival instinct he can now destroy to survive. Explosive and destructive potential.

Question 13

“On another occasion,”

Answer 13

This sounds like one in a series of stories and the reader is listening in

Question 14

“Legs it,”

Answer 14

Colloquial expression makes it sound like an ordinary anecdote

Question 15

“Possibly armed, possibly not,”

Answer 15

There is doubt here which contrast strongly with the definite action that follows

Question 16

“All three,” “three” “all”

Answer 16

Repetition sounds like he’s keen for the Reader to know it wasn’t just him. This is that he feels guilty.

Question 17

“Open fire,”

Answer 17

This comes as a surprise the sudden violence doesn’t fit with the causal tone

Question 18

“I see,” repeated

Answer 18

Emphasises is the visual horror of the scene

Question 19

“It rips through his life”

Answer 19

This violent metaphor contrasts shockingly with the colloquial style of the first two stanzas

Question 20

“ I see broad daylight on the other side”

Answer 20

This is quite a test exaggerated image as he says he can see through the bullet holes man’s body

Question 21

“Sort of inside out,”

Answer 21

This is almost childish description of the man’s body showing the speaker seems unable to process it in an adult way

Question 22

“ and tosses his guts back into his lorry then he’s carted off in the back of a lorry,”

Answer 22

Two very casual cold actions showing no respect for the dead man tosses and culture of make it sound as if the body is a piece of rubbish

Question 23

“End of the story except not really,”

Answer 23

Turning point (Volta) as the speakers mood changes

Question 24

“His blood shadow stays on the streets,”

Answer 24

A visual reminder of the death it foreshadows that memories will haunt him

Question 25

Both war and home is discussed in the same stanza

Answer 25

Shows how war pollutes and intrudes soldiers home life’s

Question 26

“Possibly armed possibly not,” repeated st the end

Answer 26

Shows that he’s replaying the event in his mind

Question 27

“Dug in behind enemy lines”

Answer 27

The metaphor compares the memory stuck in his mind to a soldier in a trench

Question 28

“ some distant sun stunned sand smothered land”

Answer 28

The bottom parts of the compound and adjectives, stern and smog show how the places affected by war the long line in the sibilance slow the pace and reflect the speakers lack of clea thought

Question 29

“His bloody life,”

Answer 29

He’s talking about the man’s blood, but also swearing and anger

Question 30

“In my bloody hands,”

Answer 30

shows there’s no collective responsibility now and he feels completely responsible.

There is a possible reference to Macbeth as the evolution hits the speaker has been unbalanced by his guilt as lady Macbeth was

Question 31

Remains: starts in medias res

Answer 31

Res indicates a series of traumatic incidences