Mametz wood

• • "The wasted young turning up under their plough blades"
  • soldiers lives were carelessly thrown away by unjust generals who did not value their men
  • The soldiers refuse to remain hidden or forgotten
• • "A chit of bone, the china plate of a soldier blade"
• • "they were told to walk not run, towards the wood and its nesting machine guns"
  • generals lack respect for their soldiers
  • destructive machines made by men responsible for the violence and death
• • "like a wound working a foreign body to to the surface of the skin"
  • The men were too young and innocent for war and consequently were unable to experience a full life
• • "twenty men buried in one long grave"
  • "a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm"
  • Men were ruthlessly killed and did not have the privilege to be buried in their own individual grave - undervalued
  • Men supported each other in death - highlights the sense of brotherhood shared by soldiers despite the harsh circumstances
• • "in boots that outlasted them"
  • Signifies irony that their boots were in better condition than the soldiers who wore them
• • "slipped from their absent tongues"
  • The remains of soldiers communicate the brutal sacrifice they made for us
  • The soldiers have been silenced for a long time - can't share their experiences to warn future generations of the brutality they faced in war