Mametz Wood - context and structure

Question 1

what is the poem’s structure?

Answer 1

• regular three line stanzas almost reflecting the neat linear pattern of ploughed fields
• however, at times length of lines change, with longer lines breaking the neat form
• disrupted pattern could reflect the ‘chits of gone’ rising up out of the ground and situating our attempts to forget the past

Question 2

first part of poem? final stanzas?

Answer 2

• focuses on the land itself
• view shifts to bones and dead soldiers in final stanzas
• concluding stanza brings all elements together