Context and Structure Flashcards
1
Q
What is PTSD?
A
Post traumatic stress disorder
2
Q
What effect does PTSD have on people?
A
Feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt
3
Q
What programme was the poem inspired by?
A
Channel 4 documentary - ‘The Not Dead’
4
Q
What is the structure of the stanzas in the poem?
A
Regular stanzas except the last one
- > lost part of himself to death
- > not finished - infinite recurrence of PTSD
5
Q
What is the effect of the half rhyme and assonance?
A
Feeling of not fitting together and suggests how numb the soldier is to what is happening
6
Q
Effect of repetition?
A
Never-ending flashback to the events; also more memorable to the reader
