The War Correspondent - Carson

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

Resource summary

	Created by Lauren Bradford over 7 years ago