Comparison - A Wife in London and Mametz Wood Flashcards
How is the theme of war similar in A Wife in London and Mametz wood?
A Wife in London:
‘she sits in the tawny vapour’ = pathetic fallacy reflects the mood - tawny means brown which may show that the air is polluted by warfare like her life and sits is a passive verb showing she feels isolated, helpless and trapped in her house using war
‘The City lanes have uprolled’ = imagery of city being destroyed and show the roads collapsing due to bombings - the theme of entrapment as war is closing in on her
Mametz Wood:
‘absent tongue’ = shows the solider as passive and helpless similar to the wife
‘socketed heads tilted back’ = imagery of destruction of war and soldiers buried so they are trapped inside
How is the theme of war death similar in A Wife in London and Mametz wood?
A Wife in London:
‘the street lamp glimmers cold’ = oxymoron glimmers cold represents life and death - metaphor describes the life of the soldiers as they die - shows the wife’s hope
Mametz Wood:
‘mid-dance macabre’ = shows the reality of death and has horrid imagery of the consequence of war
How is the theme of grief and loss similar in A Wife in London and Mametz wood?
A Wife in London:
‘his hand, whom the worm now knows’ = repeated alliteration of ‘h’ creates a whispery tone - reflects her grief and fondness and assonance in ‘now knows’ emphasises the grief
Mametz Wood:
‘blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull’ = Plosive alliteration – mimics the sound of gunfire and explosions on the battlefield. Zoomorphism associates a sense of delicacy with the soldiers – some only boys.
