S.I.W

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

militaristic jargon, excludes the reader

Question 2

“Being one that hates obedience, Discipline, and orderliness of life, I cannot mourn him”

Answer 2

Quotes Yeats, an Irish Romantic poet. Used both ironically and bitterly.

Question 3

“Courage leaked, as sand from the best sandbag after years of rain”

Answer 3

only poetic technique used. This powerful simile celebrates his courage in a bleak way.

Question 4

“Death sooner then dishonour, that’s the style’ So father said”

Answer 4

the direct speech suggests that the Fathers’s mentality is ridiculed.

Question 5

“One dawn, our wire patrol Carried him. This time, Death had not missed”

Answer 5

Free indirect style. and punctuation mimics a conversation. The personification of “death” emph by the capitalisation suggests the soldiers are always exposed to the horrors of war.

Question 6

“Curtained with fire…..”

Answer 6

Metaphor sense that home is of hellish values. Emph a sense of entrapment.

Question 7

“wrote the mother ‘Tim died smiling”

Answer 7

tones of disrespect. Reflective of lies authoritative figures told to the Home Front.

Question 8

Form

Answer 8

Formally labelled stanzas give the poem an epic feel. Deeply ironic, however, emph the heroic nature of Tim’s death. In prologue the rhyme is regular. This reflects the traditional ideas and values of their family.
Long vowel sounds and half rhyme in ‘the poem’ “soul”, “thrall” “wall” and whole” Emph torment.