Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers Flashcards
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Written in 2005
emotive images that make people consider the past influencing the present
3 lined stanzas like layers
written after visiting a WWI battlefield on the Somme, where 4000 soldiers from 38th Welsh Division were killed or injured
gone to make a short film about 2 Welsh writers who’d written about fighting in Mametz
sent forward towards German guns, innocent went to deaths, accused of cowardice
photo in newspaper - grave found under car factory - disturbing
