Bayonet charge - ted hughes

• Raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy
• Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
• The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye, sweating, like molten iron from the centre of his chest
• In what cold clockwork of the stars and nations, was he the hand pointing that second
• King honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm
• Is terrors touchy dynamite
• written by - ted Hughes
• enjambment

  • Reflects movement of running
  • Bullets being continuously fired
  • The attack/war is continuous
• caesura

  • Bullets
  • Stopping to think
  • Pulling him back into reality
• pronoun he

  • Universal figure, who could represent any young soldier