Bayonet charge

Bayonet charge

Link to conflict
1. The conflict involved in rushing out of the trenches to attack against staying safe in the trenches
Link to power
1. The powerful and raw emotions involved in rushing out from the trenches.
structure
1. Enjambment adds to the chaos of the battlefield as the soldiers charge mindlessly to their deaths- without stopping.
Key quotes
1. "suddenly he awoke and was running"
  1. 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.
2. "He lugged a riffle numb as a smashed arm"
3. "The patriotic tear....sweating like molten iron"
  1. "patriotic tear" - war imagery. loyal to his country "sweating like molten rock"
4. "A yellow hare that rolled like a flame"
  1. natural imagery - simile = defenceless
  2. Mimics soldiers actions
5. "His terror's touchy dynamite"
  1. onomataphia - sound imagery. "T" shows that the dynamite is going to explode
Context
1. This poem looks at the dehumanising impact of leaving the trenches into no-man's-land.
2. Hughes's father was deeply affectedly WW1 so therefore he decided to write about it
3. He was poet Laurette in 1984-death

Resource summary

	Created by sophie wallis over 6 years ago