'Come On, Come Back' Flashcards
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When is the poem set?
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In a future war
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What does the title suggest?
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- willing her memory to come back
- war is absurd
- it’s a universal song
- songs last forever
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“Left by the ebbing tide of battle”
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- metaphor suggests being left behind~ when the ‘tide’ goes out, it leaves random objects stranded, forgotten about.
- image of the waves crashing against each other
- symbolises the violence of war
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‘Austerlitz’
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- where napoleon made a famous victory against Russia and Austria
- the poet imagines a future war on an old battlefield
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“At midnight in the moonlight she is sitting alone on a round flat stone”
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- alliteration emphasised the moonlight
- creates an eerie setting
- repetition of “alone” emphasises the point.
- poet wants the reader to sympathise with the ‘girl solider’
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“The girl soldier Vaudevue sits”
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- contradiction~ being a girl and a soldier
- makes reader consider two issues~ the traumatic effects that war brings and whether women should fight as soldiers
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“Of all human exterminators”
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- a chilling impersonal word
- clinical
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“M.L.5”
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- made up name for a chemical
- like the gas used to gas the Jews in WWII
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“Only her memory is dead for evermore”
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- lost all memories
- although she is alive, she is badly injured
- feeling confused and disturbed (lines 10,11,12)
