Comradery

Sentry

“coaxing … held a flame against his lids” to quell his “sobbing”

HOWEVER

“forgot him there in posting next for duty”

War corrupted comradery due to its nature

Dulce

“smothering dreams” about the “drowning gas attack”

HOWEVER

“flung him in” a “wagon”

WARS CHAOS CORRUPTED COMRADERY

After death comradery in (link to trauma)

“Some conducted quiet conversations with comrades who had been blown to pieces years before”

AO2 : “Some conducted quiet conversations with comrades who had been blown to pieces years before”

Juxtaposition between soft imagery and violent imagery

Harsh ‘b’ plosives

AO3 : “Some conducted quiet conversations with comrades who had been blown to pieces years before”

Juxtaposition shows what the soldiers want (peace and tranquility) compared to what they’re forced to endure (horror and mutilation)

Creates sense of injustice

Shows reality of war and the shell shock it caused

AO5 : “Some conducted quiet conversations with comrades who had been blown to pieces years before”

Marxist - injustice

After death comradery in WO

“wagon we flung him in” defends the soldier who suffered against the likes of Jessie Pope

Comradery in FC

“faintly hear other voices joining in”

“men crouched singing cheerful songs, while death fell around them from the sky”

Cigarettes

‘Everyone with his fag burning between his lips’

‘They thinks just because they chucks some fags at us that they’re doing their patriotic bit’

‘Brothers sent his favourite cigarettes’