Power And Conflict Poetry - Bayonet Charge

Question 1

Who wrote Bayonet Charge?

Answer 1

Ted Hughes

Question 2

What is the big idea?

Answer 2

Is set around conflict in that a soldier is running out of the trenches in an attack
Looks at the idea of Transformation in humanity and nature. Explores the idea that the soldier is a machine. Iron man - other than human

Question 3

Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw

Answer 3

Alliteration - hard work of heavy breathing

Question 4

Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge

Answer 4

Contrast war zone with a rural green image

Question 5

Bullets smacking the belly out of the air -

Answer 5

Personification blurs the line between human and machine

Question 6

The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye

Answer 6

Reason why

Question 7

In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations
Was he the hand pointing that second?

Answer 7

Enjambment
Questioning himself beyond control
Metaphor - his actions are more like a clock work machine than human

Question 8

Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame

Answer 8

Cowardice
Metaphor - image of a soldier in fear and flight

Question 9

He plunged past

Answer 9

Plosives

Question 10

King, honour, human dignity, et cetera

Answer 10

Listing
Motivation for fighting meaningless in survival

Question 11

Blue crackling air

Answer 11

Atmosphere - element of danger

Question 12

His terror’s touchy dynamite

Answer 12

Metaphor for survival and his machine like actions