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Description
Flashcards by JosephBailey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by JosephBailey
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Mametz Wood | WW1 |
| Focus | Farmers nurturing the land ironically ploughing up soldiers skeletons |
| Form | 7 regular three line stanzas - suggests the seasons - 3? |
| Voice | Sad observer describing the skeletons |
| Structure | 'the wasted young' the bones 'chit', 'china' 'walk, not run' children 'like a wound' the earth 'mid dance-mac' grave 'boots' youth gross image 'notes sung' Welsh + soldiers songs like enemy |
| Sound Effects | L1 'f' allit- spitting effect in frustration L4 'ch' - harsh + angry' L10 - 's' sibilance, spitting anger St 7 - 's' - final anger |
| Images | Descriptions of bones - delicate, fragile like life. Dance of Death - as shot jerking, falling - reflected in linked arms in grave |
| Repetition | No repetition |
| Punctuation | Long sentences running across verses make difficult to read = difficult issue to discuss; and - new sentence - on going - not over - still coming back to farmers |
| Other Features | 7 stanzas = Shakespeare's 7 stages of Man - the 3 lines - awkward feel of incomplete verse like soldiers' lives |
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