Mametz Wood

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

Owen sheers

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

Visits sight of slaughter of Welsh soildures in WW1
Agricultural and mining

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

Each stanza is in threes its split up and fragments like the soldiers lying together

Question 4

Quote abt the soldiers which could be seen as their decaying body’s or just the fact that they died too soon. Either way very negative

Answer 4

“The wasted young”

Question 5

Line with sharp sounds to presents the broken bones, or to create the war soundscape

Answer 5

“A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade”

Question 6

Clear image of the fragility , also using this image cause its full of life yet used to describe dead creates an almost paradox

Answer 6

“Blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull”

Question 7

Quote abt weapons the verb juxtaposes the weapons cause nests are supposed to protect but weapons don’t. Also disturbing as implies weapons and violence are a part of nature

Answer 7

“Nesting machine guns”

Question 8

Image of skeletons dancing, sad cause they were young and full of life. Also used the word “paused” not stopped cause even though they died the war continued

Answer 8

“their Skeltons paused mid dance-macabre”

Question 9

Horrifying image to remind the reader of the war, deprived of flesh and eyes

Answer 9

“Socketed heads titled back at an angle”

Question 10

Syrcuyre

Answer 10

Past to presents, collapse of time trauma?