mametz wood

• "in boots that outlasted them"
• "where they were told to walk not run"
• "like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin"
• "slipped from their absent tongues"
• "mosaic of bone linked arm in arm"
• sheers was not a soldier
• poem is about welsh soldiers dying in a French field during the war
• the title represents the place their bodies were left
• the bodies had been in the ground for 80 years before a farmer discovered the bones
• the themes in this poem are war and loss
• "wasted young"
• "broken birds egg of a skull"