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What year was the poem written?
1917
What was his job?
Poet and soldier
What is the poem based on?
His first hand experiences in the trenches
What is the purpose of the poem?
Brutality of war
Criticise the glory associated with war
Futility of war
Describe the tone of the poem:
Sombre
haunting
Describe the structure of the poem:
Cyclical structure
Regular stanzas
Caesura
What does the cylical structure represent?
The inescapable and ongoing nature of war
Why are there regular stanzas?
Rigid and monotonous lifestyle in the trenches
How many stanzas are there?
8
What does the caesura represent?
The prolonged suffering of the soldiers
What rhyme scheme does he use?
Pararhyme
What does pararhyme relfect?
The discomfort and chaos of war
What are two examples of pararhyme?
"
Knife us
"
"
Nervous
"
"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"
relentless and harsh nature of the weather
personification
mental exhaustion
"But nothing happens"
repetition emphasise the futility of their situation
sense of numbness and despair
absence of a resolution makes their suffering feel increasingly profound
"The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow"
Symbol
of
hope
now linked with suffering
Intensifies their misery
Personified as an
enemy
"For love of God seems dying"
Soldiers are losing faith
Disillusionement with the idea of religion
No longer fear the reprocussions of God after being subject to such belligerent conditions if there were a God as such.
"Slowly our ghosts drag home"
spiritually and emotionally dead
empty and numb
exhausting journey
return is not triumphant
metaphor
unable to escape the psychological impact of war
How does pararhyme reflect the discomfort of war?
The incomplete and
unsettling
sound
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