Bayonet charge

• Suddenly


  Thrown into action
• Sweat heavy


  Intens, could be panicking
• Stumbling


  Struggling, could be tired
• bullets smacking the belly out of the air

  Repetition of h sound represents breathless ness
• Riffle as numb as a smashed arm

  Dehumanised / weaponised
• Almost stopped


  Shocked, moment of realisation
• Cold clockwork


  Repition and inevitability of suffering
• Like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs

  Careless
• Threw up a yellow hare

  Yellow , sickly

  hare, vunrable animal
• Threshing circle


  Violent

  cirlce, has no ends
• King, honour, human and dignity, etcetra


  Reasons to fight or mocking them
• Yelling alarm


  Silence broken, starteling
• His terrors touchy dynamite

  Describing him as a weapon of war
• In media’s res


  Join in the middle / chaos
• Enjambment


  Continuation of war and suffering
• Second stanza static language

  Men are having a relization
• Key themes


  • indescribability of war
  • horrors of war
  • inevitability of death
  • honour and duty
• Comparison poems


  • Exposure
  • charge of the light brigade
  • remains
  • kamikaze