Base Details

• Opens with Harsh sounds - "If i were fierce, and bald and short of breathe"
• "Speed glum heroes up the line to death" - Machine that is war. Soldiers have already seen the horrors of war and are dead already
• "Puffy petulant face' - Plosives - anger
• "Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel" - Monstrous image - Upper class are ugly inside and out. Overindulgence here is potrayed as disgusting
• "Poor young chap" - shallow comment
• "I used to know his father well" upper class always looking to outlet their privileged position
• "Last scrap" all that war is to them is "scrap" like scrap metal or dirt. Soldiers represent just a small insignificant resource for their master goal to win the war (Their only concern)
• "Youth stone dead" horrific juxtaposition - sanctity of life removed. Cost of human life is on the floor.
• "toddle safely home" - baby walk/fat walk. Overindulgence and naiviety both demonstrated simultaneously.
• '-in bed' hypen adds to the emphasis on this gross privilege. No nightmares/no concerns. An image of pure comfortability