Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers

Question 1

Mametz wood
Person?
Structure?

Answer 1

3rd person- omniscient, observing & thoughtful
3 line stanzas- uneven, mirrors plough fields and disturbance caused by war

Question 2

Mametz wood
Context?

Answer 2

Welsh 38th division sent to battle of Somme in 1916
Soldiers were young, untrained

Question 3

Mametz wood
5 quotations

Answer 3

‘the wasted young’
‘chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade’
‘they were told to walk not run’
‘like a wound working a foreign body to the surface’
‘in boots that outlasted them’

Question 4

Mametz wood
‘the wasted young’

Answer 4

Innocence and inexperience
Futility of war and violence, bravery and sacrifices were wasted
Died long before they should’ve

Question 5

Mametz wood
‘chit of bone, china plate of a shoulder blade’

Answer 5

Plosive alliteration, anger and frustration of the unnecessary deaths
Metaphor, fragility and preciousness of the men, broken beyond repair
Asyndetic list, fragments of the remains

Question 6

Mametz wood
‘they were told to walk not run’

Answer 6

General Haig’s policy, stupidity of the rule, death was inevitable
Pathos, being obedient and willing
Cruelty and immorality of the leaders

Question 7

Mametz wood
‘like a wound working a foreign body to the surface’

Answer 7

War a destructive force
Simile, Earth reveals them to be remembered, not forgotten 85 years later
Foreboding, other war secrets will eventually be exposed

Question 8

Mametz wood
‘in boots that outlasted them’

Answer 8

Enjambment, draws reader to next line, rising emotion
Ironic, boots usually short lived
Empathy, non-living object survived instead of innocent humans