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bayonet charge - pain and fear

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and crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide

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bayonet charge - blind and irrational

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like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs

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bayonet charge - disables him

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rifle as numb as a smashed arm

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bayonet charge - violent imagery

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bullets smacking the belly out of the air

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bayonet charge - survival

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king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries

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bayonet charge - fear

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his terrors touchy dynamite

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charge of the light brigade - surrounded

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cannon to the right of them
cannon to the left of them
cannon in front of them

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charge of the light brigade - no choice

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theirs but to do and die

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charge of the light brigade - lives lost

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all that was left, left of the six hundred

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charge of the light brigade - galloping

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half a league, half a league, half a league onward

++each line has about 5-6 beats that also replicate galloping

dactylic dimeter

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charge of the light brigade - pslam 23

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into the valley of death

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war photographer - entertainment

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they do not care

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war photographer - regularity + order

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with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows

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war photographer - ptsd

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beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now

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war photographer - dead

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a half formed ghost

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war photographer - pain

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a hundred agonies in black and white

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remains - guilt

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probably armed, possibly not

REPEATED

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remains - murder

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his bloody life in my bloody hands

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remains - sleep

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sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not

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remains - drink

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and the drink and the drugs wont flush him out

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remains - group

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three of a kind all letting fly

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exposure - wind

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our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us

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exposure - snow

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less deadly then the air that shudders black snow

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exposure - death

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is it that we are dying?

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exposure - preoccupied
we turn back to our dying
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ozymandias - legs
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
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ozymandias - visage
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
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ozymandias - command
sneer of cold command
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ozymandias - king
king of kings
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ozymandias - wreck
colossal wreck, boundless and bare
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london - owned
near where the chartered thames does flow
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london - marks
marks of weakness, marks of woe
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london - trapped
The mind-forged manacles I hear
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london - pain
chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh
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london - end of good
plagues the marriage hearse
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the prelude - opening
One summer evening (led by her)
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the prelude - size
a huge peak, black and huge
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the prelude - darkness
there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion
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the prelude -
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the prelude -
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storm on the island - preparation
we are prepared
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storm on the island - savage
sits like a tamed cat turned savage
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storm on the island - bombard
we are bombarded by the empty air
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london - what is meat by 'chartered'
owned and regulated
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london - what is the rhyme pattern ? what does is represent ?
abab - walking
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my last duchess - rhyme
aa bb cc dd etc. the rigid rhyme shows the control and power the speaker has
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my last duchess - thank
thanked Somehow... as if she ranked My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name With anybody’s gift
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my last duchess - command
I gave commands; | Then all smiles stopped together
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my last duchess - alive
That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive
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my last duchess - pleased easily
She had A heart—how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed the growing indication is her attention went where it shouldn't have - shows manipulation of the truth POWER 'frau' painted it - monk - no relationship
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my last duchess - repetition of alive
There she stands / As if alive shows she is dead and makes the reader suspicious
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kamikaze - opening
he embarked at sunrise dramatic monologue - hook sunrise + embark = adventure but title hints at death sunrise - japan 'land of the rising sun' -- patriotic/honour
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kamikaze - hair
a shaved head full of powerful incantations implies he is under a spell - influenced by propaganda ? brainwashed ? shaved - removal of identity
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kamikaze - known
enough for a one way journey to history context - he is not expected to return one way - no going back, euphemism for suicide history - makes it seem honourable
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kamikaze - switch
but half-way there, she thought recounting it to her children but - intro to hesitation signifies change enjambment creates suspense - represents changed mind he has no voice - heard from daughter relaxed tone - break signals pause - disconnection from father
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kamikaze - reasoning
looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting sympathy - bunting seems child like ironic - homely instead of war - contradiction bunting - colour juxtaposes death
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kamikaze - thought
and sometimes he must have wondered which had been the better way to die doesn't know the answer - shows his isolation tragic ending
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kamikaze structure
•six lines per stanza * free verse * enjambment lack tight control - represents freedom of expression the pilot wanted
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kamikaze natural link
a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous. most powerful character in the poem is a fish threatening tense and powerful image first full stop - importance true power belongs to nature - reasoning
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kamikaze garland context
interest in the motivation of people to give up their lives
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context kamikaze
* suicide missions | * honourable sacrifice
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kamikaze link to conflict
personal and national pull between impulses cultural expectation vs inner conscience
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kamikaze natural image
flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun sibilance - energy and movement reflecting natural wonder - why should he deny himself or others the pleasure of nature
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kamikaze sun
he embarked at sunrise link to japan - the land of the rising son military metaphor - power of man and of nature
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kamikaze flags
'arching in swathes like a huge flag' 'rising sun' simile shows the pilots mindset - thinks of flag brainwashed to see everything through the lens of national service and pride associated with it

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