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Power and conflict quote analysis - Bayonet charge and Remains

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Power and Conflict-Bayonet Charge Name and analyse a quote showing that nature is affected by war

"then the shot slashed furrows" This shows that the ground itself has been hit by bullets and hit a man-made war, is affecting the innocent, natural world, just like how it affected innocent people

Power and Conflict-Bayonet Charge Name and analyse a quote describing the atmosphere

"To get out of that blue-crackling air" This atmospheric description is similar to, 'the air was electric'. The word 'crackling' provides an element of danger

Power and Conflict-Bayonet Charge Name and analyse a quote showing personification

"bullets smacking the belly out of the air" The use of this quote implies that the air itself is being winded by the number and violence of the bullets

Power and Conflict-Bayonet Charge How does the poem start and what does it mean

The poem starts In media res and this means the reader is thrown straight into the action

Power and Conflict-Bayonet Charge Name and analyse a quote using a metaphor

"In what cold clockwork...the hand pointing that second" The metaphor 'cold clockwork' shows the the huge machinery of war and the 'second' shows that the soldier thinks his role is pointless and he shouldn't be there

Power and Conflict-Remains Name and analyse a quote showing gruesome imagery

"and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out" The use of graphic imagery can tell us that the soldiers are possibly used to seeing things like this and are unphased by the sight

Power and Conflict-Remains Name and analyse a quote showing how the memory never leaves

"his blood-shadow stays on the street" The use of 'blood-shadow' shows that whenever the soldier walks at that location, the memory of the blood from the looter on the street comes back and will stay forever

Power and Conflict-Remains Name and analyse a quote showing lack of individuality

"well myself and somebody else and somebody else" The repetition of 'somebody else' proves the lack of individuality and shows the soldiers as a collective and not as themselves

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Module English

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