Mametz Wood

Question 1

Mametz wood overview

Answer 1

Sheers uses his poem as a vehicle to expose the gruesome realities of war through highlighting the damaging effect it has on soldiers. He wrote about a place called mametz wood in France where the battle of sommes happened and he writes about the effect on soldiers he saw.

Question 2

Mametz wood structure

Answer 2

Short stanza lengths is symbolic of the panic of wars effects
The lines running though stanzas is symb9lic of the emotional distance now after war