Poetry quotes

• Bayonet charge:: "Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest"

  "Like molten iron"

  Very strong and powerful Simile

  • Conveys how impelled he is to serve for his country but his human desire to survive burns him on the "centre of his chest" to survive.

  
• Exposure::

  "Silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous"

  fast paced, sibilance,

  feelings of anxiety and desperation
• Iambic pentameter  a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Assonance: Repeated vowel sound.

  Plosive alliteration: Words starting with b, g, k, p, t and d right after one another!!! These letters make a small explosive sound as you say them, so they're often used in alliteration for added emphasis and meaning.
• Sibilance: repeated 's' sound
• Exposure: "But nothing happens"

  repetition, shows war is repetitive and also futile.
• Random exposure quotes well worth remembering ! ʕ•́ᴥ•̀ʔっ

  "War lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy"

  "Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"

  "Sudden successive flights of bullets"

  • sibilance, sounds like bullets

  "Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces"

  • semantic field of war ("knive", "stealth")
• Exposure:

  "So we drowse, sun-dozed. Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses.- Is it that we are dying?"

  Dreaming of home, comfort, escape and reflecting back on life/innocence. The soldiers dream of spring, feeling warm, and the refrain about nothing happening turns to a question: “is it that we are dying?” which makes the reader very clear about what is happening here. Nature kills stealthily, sneakily. There is confusion and disorientation rather than loss of limbs or life.
• More cool and awesome exposure quotes, i love koby:

  "Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed with crusted dark-red jewels"

  • The fact that the "ghosts" are "drag[ging] home" shows that the soldiers are desperate to get back to their families and want to rewind time if possible.

  "Shutters, and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed,- we turn back to our dying."

  • cannot return home. Links to Kamikaze, War photographer and poppies.
• • Caesura is a pause that occurs within a line of poetry.
  • Semantic field, is a group of words or expressions that are related in meaning.
  • Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break
• Storm on the Island:

  "We are prepared, we build our houses squat,"

  The first line gives us an impression of safety but we find out that at the end the humans can't compete with nature.There is nothing the islanders can do to stop the storms, the thing they fear is nothing solid that they can change, they just have to withstand the storms.
• Exposure::"Merciless iced east winds that knive us..."

  Personification

  • Harsh and violent imagery, brutal. Emphasized by "Merciless"
  • Elipses .... pondering