Poetry-Bayonet Charge(hughes)

Question 1

Describe the context?

Answer 1

• never saw war first hand

- poems are a way to makw sense of events he never saw but had a daily impact(Father)

Question 2

Describe the overarching concepts?

Answer 2

• effects of conflict
• reality of conflict
• individual experiances

Question 3

Reality of conflict?

Answer 3

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”-anthropomorphism

“Stumbling”-active verb

“Patriotic tear”-emotive language(connoations to patrionism)

Question 4

Effects of conflict plan:

Answer 4

“Kingm honour, human dignity”-triplet,-irony

“Dropped like luxuries”-simile

-he almost stopped”-tension-slowed pace-increased suspense

Question 5

Individual experiances plan:

Question 6

Describe the strucutre:

Answer 6

• no regular rythmn(represents chaios in the feild)
• regular stanzas-military unit plans
• in media res

Semantic field of violent imagrey

Question 7

Semantic field of violent imagrey examples:

Answer 7

“Smashed”
“Molton iron”
“Terror’s touchy dynamite”