Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Base Details
- Theme
- Anger and
bitterness
- Anti- war
poem
- Attacking attitudes of "Majors"
- Tone
- Sarcastic and satirical
- Tone of disgust
- Imagery
- "Fierce", "bald"- Tells us
they are high in status
and that they are older
men in a comedic way
- "Speed glum
heroes"-
Rushing the
real heroes to
their deaths
- Sound
- Rhyme- ABABCDCDCDEE
- Alliteration “puffy petulant
face” “guzzling and gargling”
used when describing the
majors
- P.O.V
- Poet imagines himself
as a high ranking
military officer sending
young soldiers to death.
- Language
- "Base"- Pun. Low
morals and base
camp
- "Scarlet Majors"-
Pun. Blood on their
hands and red face
due to fat
- Rhyming couplet