Poems Flashcards
Remains: Metaphor of tortured memories full of guilt
His bloody life in my bloody hands
Remains: Graphic hyperbole reflects on violence of the image
I see every round as it rips through his life
Remains: Colloquialism makes situation seem casual
One of them legs it up the road
Exposure: Personification of the wind and contrast of being stabbed with bayonets
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..
Exposure: sibilance mimicking sound of bullets or wind
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
Exposure: Effective language of soldiers burying their own men and shaking because of shell shock or coldness
The burying-party picks and shovels in shaking grasp, pause over the half-known faces
War Photographer: Sibilance and metaphor referring to rows of graves or soldiers
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
War Photographer: Contrast between hellish war zones and peaceful homeland
Home again… to fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat
War Photographer: Colour imagery simplifying the pain of war
A hundred agonies in black and white
Bayonet Charge: Metaphor and Simile referring to the soldier getting winded and inexperience
Bullets smacking the belly out of the air - he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm
Bayonet Charge: Rhetorical question and metaphor questioning his meaning and involvement in this conflict
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?
Bayonet Charge: List disregarding list of key motivation and patriotism
King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
