Quotes and Analysis Flashcards
1
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Conversational tone
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‘On another occasion’
- > lack of sensitivity
- > feel like we have missed out on other stories - one of the many events
2
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Graphic hyperbole
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‘I see every round as it rips through his life’
- > lack of honour or glory in this killing
- > sees the man as a life
3
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Colloquial and intimate style
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‘One of my mates goes by and tosses his guts back into his body’
- > engages the reader
- > used to give a realistic tone to the voice of the speaker - sense of heightened realism
4
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Repitition
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‘probably armed, possibly not’
- > sense of guilt and doubt
- > power to decide his fate
5
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Metaphor
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‘blood-shadow’
- > connotes death
- > connotes lingering memory
6
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Simple sentence
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‘End of story, except not really’ ‘Then I’m home on leave’
- > change of thought
- > expectation vs reality - being home doesn’t mean he has escaped
7
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Sibilance
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‘in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land’
- > peaceful being dead rather than alive
- > exotic images: being a soldier seems fun and exciting but this is facade
8
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Time phrases
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‘week after week’ ‘here and now’
- > continuous throughout the poem
- > doesn’t feel time like other people
9
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Double meaning
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‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’
- > expletive - cursed
- > bloody - sense of guilt
