bayonet charge

• patriotic tear

  his patriotism has turned into fear and pain his heroic ideas have been replaced by painful reality
• suddenly he awoke

  sounds like he is confused and in a vulnerable state the vents may seem like a nightmare but this confirms that they are infact reality
• his terrors touchy dynamite

  the solider seems t have become a weapon rather than a human being. he is driven purely by terror. has been dehumanised
• published in 1957
• the poem looks at the dehumanizing impact of leaving the trenches into no mans land
• his father served in ww1