Mametz Wood - Owen Sheers (Quotes)
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‘the wasted young’
* The war wasted so many lives
* They were all young and had lives ahead of them
* They were all young and had lives ahead of them
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‘A chit of bone’
* Bones are telling stories from the past
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‘chit’
* Note/memo
* Lives are just memories now
* Lives are just memories now
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‘china plate of a shoulder blade’
* Easily breakable
* Fragile
* Expensive/valuable
* Fragile
* Expensive/valuable
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‘the relic of a finger’
* Something of the past
* Sacred/secular
* Metaphor
* Sacred/secular
* Metaphor
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‘bird’s egg of a skull’
* Resembles skull
* New life/youth
* Fragile
* New life/youth
* Fragile
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‘walk, not run’
* Told to be brave/uniformed in the sight of danger
* Near death
* Makes them easier targets → these lives are just pawns
* Near death
* Makes them easier targets → these lives are just pawns
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‘foreign body’
* Forgotten people
* Their lives are now/were meaningless
* Their lives are now/were meaningless
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‘mosaic’
* Emphasises the damage done
* Metaphor
* Metaphor
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‘dance-macabre’
* Life is fragile
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‘in boots that outlasted them’
* Outlived the soldiers
* Emphasises the insanity of war
* Emphasises the insanity of war
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‘slipped from their absent tongues’
* They had no choice but to fight
* Voices were never heard and now can’t be
* Voices were never heard and now can’t be
