The Dead Beat

Question 1

Lit crit:

Answer 1

Vaughan talks of when in the battle of Ypres, he was ‘reduced to the childishness of laughing at another man’s fear’.
Laughed at a man breaking down.

Question 2

How could it be described in an introduction?

Answer 2

Brutal realism.

Question 3

‘Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat’.

Answer 3

Demeaning.
Zoomorphic imagery.

Question 4

Structure:

Answer 4

Only one enjambment, punctuation or caesura break up all other lines.
Harsh, jagged.
Iambic pentameter consistent but broken in final line.

Question 5

How does this link to Life Class?

Answer 5

‘His brave young wife, getting her fun’.
Jack and Teresa.