Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bayonet charge
- Link to conflict
- The conflict involved in rushing out of
the trenches to attack against staying
safe in the trenches
- Link to power
- The powerful
and raw
emotions
involved in
rushing out
from the
trenches.
- structure
- Enjambment adds to the chaos of the
battlefield as the soldiers charge
mindlessly to their deaths- without
stopping.
- Key quotes
- "suddenly he awoke and was running"
- inmedias-ray- starts in the middle- it
is the only thing that matters. He was
forced to do something which he
didn't want to do.
- "He lugged a riffle numb as a smashed arm"
- "The patriotic tear....sweating like molten iron"
- "patriotic
tear" - war
imagery.
loyal to his
country
"sweating
like molten
rock"
- "A yellow hare that rolled like a flame"
- natural imagery - simile = defenceless
- Mimics soldiers actions
- "His terror's touchy dynamite"
- onomataphia - sound imagery.
"T" shows that the dynamite is
going to explode
- Context
- This poem looks at the
dehumanising impact of
leaving the trenches into
no-man's-land.
- Hughes's father was deeply
affectedly WW1 so
therefore he decided to
write about it
- He was poet Laurette in 1984-death