Mametz Wood

Question 1

Form / Structure

Answer 1

Short Stanzas

• each stanza is a fragment
• pieces together the stanzas
• pieces together the bodies

Longer lines break up neat form

• landscape of war
• bones rising out the ground

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

A BROKEN MOSAIC OF BONE LINKED ARM IN ARM
- patriotism 
- wasted youth still united 
AND NOW THE EARTH STANDS SENTINEL
- earth guards bones
- earth guards history
- earth guards victims of war
SLIPPED FROM THEIR ABSENT TONGUES
- rotted tongues - Literally
- slipped memory - loss
- men unable to articulate what has happened
CHIT OF BONE
RELIC OF A FINGER

Question 3

Language

Answer 3

Semantics of body
- finger
- shoulder blade
- skull 
• Reminder of mortality
• Loss of humanity

“MAMETZ WOOD”

• stresses importance of location
• Battle of the Somme 1916

Question 4

Mood

Answer 4

• Reflecting on forgotten events

- hymn to their memory

Question 5

Soundscape

Answer 5

Subtle use of sound
No rhyme scheme

Stanza 2:
Echoes the sound of gunfire and destruction of battlefields