Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The War Correspondent - Carson
- Structure
- stanzas alternate from poverty to wealth to poverty again
- overlapping of cultural references
- alliteration
- 'ballast-laden junks bound for Benares'
- like a recipe
- teeming / chaotic
- death interspersed within imagery,
disregard for real beauty
- depicts crowdedness of scene, overwhelming physicality
- Ideas
- organisms linked with violence
- contrast and connection between living and dead
- pointlessness of sacrifice
- akin to charge of the light brigade by Tennyson
- soil rich from blood - nutrient rich, the ground a parasite
- nature overpowers man's machinations
- buttons useful, humans not - humans worthless
and perishable once they cannot aid political
campaigns
- Technique
- heavy use of sense
- smell and taste - quite physical and human
- sensory overload
- on a relational level similar
to animals or numbers -
'populate'
- rich use of colour
- weird oxymoron - lemonade and rancid lard
- 'slaughter - houses for the troops' - foreshadowing
- leitmotif of red and blood - cochineal
- Attitude / Tone
- upper class contrast with workers
- romanticised, or disapproves of it being romanticised
- exotic language
- 7 poems
- likes storytelling, particularly Gaelic
- focus on wordplay and form