bayonet charge - ted huges Flashcards
1
Q
what does the title indicate?
A
- charging over no man’s land
- often resulted in complete annihilation of entire battalions
2
Q
‘suddenly he awoke and was running- raw’
A
- media res, intense action
- sets the fast-paced nature of the situation
3
Q
‘hot… sweat… molten’ to ‘cold’
A
- burning patriotism of youth fades and he faces reality
4
Q
‘cold clockwork’
A
- complex
- falls into line, knows what to do
- unable to commit and fit in
- abandoned by old truths
5
Q
‘was he the hand pointing that second?’
A
rhetorical questions used to make readers empathise with the situation
6
Q
what does the ‘yellow hare’ symbolise?
A
- solidarity
- that nature is compromised
- hazy memory, everything is a blur
- hallucinations?
- represents the soldiers
- innocence, destructive
- only other life mentioned
COWARDICE, FEAR, PANIC, CHAOS
7
Q
‘his terror’s touchy dynamite’
A
- he will regret his decisions
- he will face the consequences soon
8
Q
‘dropped’
A
- awakening
- survival is his new priority
9
Q
‘luxuries’
A
- unimaginable to own any at this time
- valuables are irrelevant to him
10
Q
‘blue crackling air’
A
- cold, ominous
- cursing, panic
- death
- unresponsive
