Poetry - Bayonet Charge Flashcards
1
Q
What’s 1 structure type used in Bayonet Charge?
rhythm
- structure
- reflects…
A
- irregular rhytm
- reflects unpredictable nature of war
2
Q
What’s 1 structure type used in Bayonet Charge?
a break in writing
- structure
- affect on reader…
A
- caesura
- emphasises the difficulty and graphic imagery of war
3
Q
What’s 1 structure type used in Bayonet Charge?
verse
- structure
- reflects…
A
- free verse
- reflects the overwheleming feelings of war experienced by the soldier
4
Q
What’s 1 structure type used in Bayonet Charge?
text going over
- structure
- the speaker is…
- the pace of the poem…
A
- enjambment
- speaker is expressing all his emotions at once; overwhelmed
- pace is quickened
5
Q
Main theme of Bayonet Charge?
can be broken off into many question types
- Hughes depicts war as…
- Challenges… historical context - when written?
A
- negative portrayal of war
- depicts war as chaotic and overwhelming
- challenges patrotic ideas of 1950s
6
Q
QUOTE
“Suddenly”
- chaos of…
A
“Suddenly he awoke and was running”
- chaos of war
7
Q
QUOTE
“Patriotic”
- patriotism was…
- now facing…
- critical of…
A
“The patrotriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye”
- soldiers patriarotism = useless
- facing the reality of war
- critical of patriotism - 50s
8
Q
QUOTE
“Lugged”
- technique? rifle is…? war is…? foreshadows…?
- critical of…
A
“He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”
- simile - rifle is useless? war is useless? Foreshadows his future injuries?
- critical of war again
9
Q
QUOTE
“k,h,hd”
- critical of…
- etc = ?
- technique…?
A
“king, honour, human dignity etcetera dropped like luxuries”
- critical of patriotism
- etc = criticism
- simile = you do not need luxuries, nor do you need patriotism
