14: Bayonet Charge - Ted Hughes

he awoke and was running

Soldiers have no real time to rest - emphasises suddenness

nameless soldier

narrative voice - means it could be anyone

raw-seamed hot khaki / lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm

he was not properly equipped - sent out to die (simile)

the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye (-) sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest -

going to war for your country and then dying or your patriotism dying turning to anger , simile

dashes and enjambment

shows how war is fast paced and constant the soldiers hardly have time to rest and think

In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations (-) was he the hand pointing that second ?

metaphor - he’s part of a machine - machine is uncaring - question (serves as volta)

king, honour, human dignity, etcetera

Asyndetic list - there is no good reason to fight

threw up a hare that rolled like a flame

War is unnatural and destroys innonence/naivety - simile

his terror’s touchy dynamite

he lost his naivety and became afraid of death - repitition of “t”