Conflict test Flashcards
In charge of the light briagde , what does @into the valley of death show @
-He uses powerful heavy phrases
‘into the valley of death’ echo of a biblical language , psal 23 , also daniel and oliath , highlights how much of a disadvantage he light brigade has as gthry foought the Russians .
-biblical tone sart - serious one that this needs to be respected .@jws of death; implys like a monster metahphor like thei rfate has larsy been decided .
form of charge of light brigade
-Ballad like s ong , - to emphasie the messgae as songs are memorable .
What does someone had bludnered do
- it dosent follow the dactylic fiameter of the poe , tneysonds draws our attention to the futility of the war , and how everhithing started becuase of this mistake .
- Telling us to never forget this mistake .
Repetition of theirs
The repetion of teirs is Tennyson mourning the abscence of individual freeodom , as he questions the light brigades unfailing obedience to the ones higher up . Criticising how they took no action and sacricifced ocurageous soliders alspo priaing htem .
Sound magery
Shatterd and sunderd = to show how intense the flight was but laos the ends ‘erd’ reminder that this also started becuase soemone had @blundered’ an erro was made
honour the the light brigade
COMPRE TO EXPOSURE AS BOTH POEMS EXPLORE THE CATASTRPOHIC EFECTS OF WAR UPON INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS .
-bOTH MAKE STRONG USE OF REPEPTITION AND OSUND PATTERNING .
Honour - imperative commadning us to honour thwe, , to neer forget their inspiring bravery .
Sweat-heavy
sensory image , uncomfortable imager , emotive vocabulary , overhwelms the reader as its a reflection show the solider felt in the moent .
Ptriotic tear that had brimmed
baonet charge
kin hounour human dignity
-Emphaissing that patriotim and dignit is nothing when it comes to facing war , leave evrything behind , like you have more slef0worth .
war futile .
theme of bayonet charge
indescribable horror of war .
War isn’t what u think it is so much worse .
@cold clockworks was he the hand pointing g to that second’
-solider feels robotic , on longer feels any patritoism
‘terrot touch dynamite’
-aliterative emtahphor , the soilder he feels like a klling machine , impylin he could be destroyed by his own fear
‘darkroom’
visual imagery in his hea d, consanlt exposing horrors of war .
Do his photographs does the world accept . ‘Spools of suffering set out ‘ horrifiying aliteration , ‘ordered rows’ highlihgt of graves .
‘which did not tremble then but seem to now ‘
that is highlighting phtogrpahers , fer as he feels as if he has to re-live hat experence as the photos beocme porcessed.
-Has to m=put on aa mask of courgae while taking photos , but when he is by himself he le tit all out .
The sacririces he had to make - wuestioning do peopole also feel lthis .
-running children in a nightmare heat’
-uncomfortable image r, children are form innocence , juxtaposing with the war setting , like they are running away from frear.
a priest atnoing mass
-how serious the job is to him .
prick with tears
people don;t understnad how the phtohographer fells , he feels dsance beween the pople who he takes the photos for , s heyg alcne at this thorugh relaxing sactiitely no impact as it pricks .
remains
use of colloqualism throughout the poem , highlgihting that the silder used to this setting and tired out of @probably armed possibly not’
hit it a few times
objectifes the looter , like they habecome desensitive nd robots , the only motive its to kill the looter .
‘blood shadow’
haunting imager , imprint og the looters existnece and soul .
-Its a relaization that the looter wont be forgtoeen regardles of what the soilders odes , it will suffocate , him , showing hte reader the mental impcact war has .
‘tosses his guts back into the loory ‘
is a form of dehumanization , the soliders make light of the siuttion ,
-soliders have become desneitised , the looter is jus a cuausalit .
Howeve , the narrator suffers deeply fom this , remidner oto reders ht soliders are also human at have emotions cannot forgt pian . PTSD , trauma drinks drugs wont flush him out .
Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us .
@Merciless’ relentless violent and uncarinf . personifcation shows how alone soilder are in this hostile environment even anture is tunrd against them , like a loss of idnenity .
‘but nothign happens’
empahsises futility of war as the soldiers have to remain on high alert all the time .
‘less deadly than air’ bullets being described like that , the weather feels like the villian , not owrth fighting futility of war . .
‘shutters and doors all closed’
highlighs the isolation and loss of identity soldiers feel hsoiwng the distance beween soidlers and civillains , oliders cannot envisga epeave , they have swallled by war , like a battle with replity ..
poppies
mother grieving as her son departs fo rear , dosent know when he will be seena gain
