AQA GCSE English literature (9-1): Poetry: Power and Conflict: Bayonet Charge – Flashcards

Born in 1930 and died in 1998 Grew up in the countryside of Yorkshire- lost most of population Passionate about animals and nature Devoted to poetry from a young age, despite lack of income Poet and children's writers Father served in WW1 Obsessed with astrology Admiralty of Wilfred Owen Poetry Inspired by Father after war Poet Laureate, 1984- 1998

Stanza 1- Soldier wakes up, charging towards enemy with bayonet and gun in hand Stanza 2- Suddenly stops to contemplate what he is doing Stanza 3- Hare found caught up in the midst Difficult of getting through the poet- as soldier struggle the structural sludge , empathise with the situation

Indescribable horror of war Ideas vs. reality War is so terrible that you cannot describe it Horror of war is indescribable

Begins in the middle of action, something before we are not aware, confused and unsure of what has happen, empathy with soldier

REPETITION, 1- Difficulty in expressing the moment, reflect shock he has waking up into charge and stuttering, war is so horrific that he cannot explain it 2- Tim Kendall- similarity between the topic of Wilfred Owen Spring Offensive (lots of repetition in temperature, warm hot sun, burned, lot of similarity between this and bayonet charge in first two lines, repeated word, illusion, lots of similarity, similar word with temp. (flame , cold), Hugh's has to sound like of Owen, everything he knows come form Owen, forced to explain it by someone was there, even gifted Hugh s cannot explain it

CAESURA, forces reader like soldier to stop and think, combined with enjambment to create chaos

ENJAMBMENT, creates disjointed and unorganised effect, reflect the soldier waking in up into chaos and disorder

SIX SIMILES, comparison, don't know how to described the moment but to compare it to something you can understand, it is impossible to describe, war is so terrible he cannot describe it , cannot explain what it is

ALLITERATION, turned into a killing machine/ weapon, driven purely by terror

EMOTIVE VOCABULARY, overload, overwhelm reader reflecting how the soldier feels

MOCKING TONE, and so on, criticises patriotic values soldier have, meaningless in the heat of battle, devastation, challenge that patriotism are really away form the war

SEMANTIC FIELD, running like a man would run like a man in stress, wants readers to struggle through power, complexity and confusion, complex language somehow relate

CONSONANCE, nature has no interest, was it destined by star, or power of government, neither interested, nobody care, suggest soldiers are cog in a machine

SIMILE, expressed the war in the original patriotism has been shift aside for sheer panic

IMAGERY/ PERSONIFICATION, effect war has on nature, air symbolises nature, damage done on nature, understand, hare is another reface to nature victim, Animal lover, yellow link to cowardliness

THIRD PERSON, universal feelings of soldiers

Irregular Rhythm- mirrors soldier struggling to run through muds Stanzas of uneven length