Mametz Wood Flashcards
Give 5 pieces of context about the poem:
-Written 80 years after the Battle of the Somme
-Battle lasted 5 days
-600 dead, 4000 casualties
-Shows the coldness of the government
-Grave of 20 men was discovered
‘For years __________ ___ _______ _____ ____-‘
‘For years afterwards the farmers found them-‘
‘the ______ young, turning __ _____ _____ ______ ______’
‘the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades’
‘as they ______ the land ____ ____ ______.’
‘as they tended the land back into itself ______.’
‘A ____ of bone, ___ _____ _____ __ _ _______ _____, the _____ __ _ ______,’
‘A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade, the relic of a finger,’
‘the blown and ______ _____ ___ __ _ _____,’
‘the blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull,’
‘_______ machine ____.’
‘nesting machine guns.’
‘and even ___ the _____ ______ ________,’
‘and even now the earth stands sentinel,’
‘like a wound _________ _ ________ ____ __ ___ _______ __ ___ _____.’
‘like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin.’
‘twenty ___ ______ __ ___ _____ ______,’
‘twenty men buried in one long grave,’
‘a broken ______ __ ____ ______ ___ __ ___,’
‘a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm,’
‘_____ ________ paused ___ _____-_______’
‘their skeletons paused mid dance-macabre’
‘in boots ____ _________ ____,’
‘in boots that outlasted them,’
‘__________ heads ______ ____’
‘socketed heads tilted back’
‘they had ____’
‘they had sung’
