Bayonnet Charge Flashcards
When did ted Hughes grow up?
Post war era
What might have motivated him to write about poems
Dad fought in WW2 and saw who’s lives it impacted
A love for your country can be described as what word?
Patriotic
What does the effect of enjambment have on the poem
Breaks rhythm, representing his breath or his confusion, or chaos
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
What device is this called? What effect does it have
Alliteration
Bombs exploding
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations
Was he the hand pointing that second?
What is this saying?
He is realising he is just being used as a weapon in the nations.
(Sublime) makes the soldiers seem small compared to the nations which suggests control over them
Threw up a yellow hair that rolled like a flame
What could this represent?
The soldier
King, honour, human dignity etcetera
Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
What is the method used?
Listing
His terrors touchy dynamite
What is this suggesting?
Feelings are weaponised
What is the author called?
Ted Hughes
