Mametz Wood

Question 1

the impacts of war are shown to be very long lasting, “found them” shows that the soldiers were lost and/or forgotten

Answer 1

For years afterwards the farmers found them

Question 2

the poet believes that war is a waste

Answer 2

wasted young

Question 3

continual references to fields shows that war and growing are opposites, heightens the perception of loss

Answer 3

tended the land back into itself

Question 4

a bone is fragmented showing wars destruction

Answer 4

chit of a bone

Question 5

the digit is old but also detached from the body showing violence and time passing on

Answer 5

relic of a finger

Question 6

the human body is shown to be very fragile

Answer 6

china plate of a shoulder blade

Question 7

this metaphor is used to create imagery of fragile things being destroyed

Answer 7

blown/and broken bird’s egg of a skull

Question 8

what battle and what war did this relate to

Answer 8

Battle of the Somme in WW1 where dead bodies and shells were being dug up still in 2016

Question 9

why did so many men die

Answer 9

4000 poorly trained men and were instructed to charge down machine guns so were mown down

Question 10

the soldiers are treated like school children

Answer 10

walk, not run

Question 11

juxtaposition of new life and violent death

Answer 11

nesting machine guns

Question 12

the soldiers are being looked after by mother nature

Answer 12

earth stands sentinel

Question 13

vague mentions of the past, nothing specific, showing that people do not want to recount the horrors of the past

Answer 13

reminders of what happened

Question 14

hopeful imagery as over time, everyone heals eventually

Answer 14

like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin

Question 15

time phrase used to show that the impacts are still felt to this day

Answer 15

this morning

Question 16

metaphor used to show that something awe-inspiring is also something so sad, life is gone and shattered into a million pieces

Answer 16

broken mosaic of bone

Question 17

shows comradery between the soldiers

Answer 17

linked arm in arm

Question 18

the soldiers are doing the dance of death, showing the fragility of life

Answer 18

dance macabre

Question 19

something that is supposed to break first, are still there showing that the soldiers were killed before their time

Answer 19

boots that outlasted them

Question 20

the fact that only some soldiers actually have jaws shows that they were subjected to awful violence

Answer 20

and their jaws, those that have them, dropped open

Question 21

the soldiers have been hidden for a century

Answer 21

As if…only now

Question 22

soldiers are passive and powerless, they are dehumanised somewhat

Answer 22

slipped from their absent tongues

Question 23

rhyming couplet gives the idea of a song

Answer 23

sung…tongue

Question 24

what did Sheers do lots of

Answer 24

interview soldiers to get their POV on war

Question 25

waht type of poem is Mametz wood

Answer 25

elegy, lamentation on war

Question 26

what does the form show

Answer 26

the short regular stanza reflect the neatly ploughed fields