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“run my fingers through the gelled blackthorns of your hair”
Poppies - thorns➡pain➡emotional pain, Is it comforting him or her?,
“steeling the softening of my face”
Poppies - repressing emotions
“I was brave”
Poppies - Normally soldiers are brave not mothers
“my stomach busy making tucks darts and pleats”
Poppies - feels physical pain, fear for his life
“tremble”
War photographer - deeply affected by the “hundred agonies”
“ ordinary pain of england”
“running children in nightmare heat”
War photographer - contrast each other, forces the reader to compare them nightmare➡unimaginable
“they do not care”
war photographer- desensitised to suffering
“spools of suffering”
war photographer- ongoing, repeated, drawn out
“twitching agonies of men”
exposure - vivid imagery of wounded
“winds that knive us”
exposure - even get wounded by weather
“What are we doing here?”
“Is it that we are dying?”
exposure - rhetorical questions second answers first
exposure - rhetorical questions second answers first
“slowly our ghosts drag home”
exposure - hopelessness
“But nothing happens”
Exposure - futility, repetition x 4, inevitable death
“Suddenly he awoke and was running”
Bayonet Charge - confused, always has to be alert
“He was running like a man who has jumped up in he dark and runs”
Bayonet charge - confusing doesn’t make sense mimics his train of thought
“stumbling”
Bayonet Charge - no control
“raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy” he “lugged” his rifle
Bayonet Charge - discomfort
“bullets smack the belly out of the air”
Bayonet Charge - violent imagery could suggest he is in pain
“King, honour, human dignity, ectetera” were “dropped like luxuries”
Bayonet charge - heroic ideals were replaced by cruel reality
“patriotic tear” was now “sweating like molten iron”
Bayonet Charge - patriotism replaced by fear and pain
“A half-formed ghost”
War photographer - haunted by the memories, half developed photo (AO3)
“Which did not seem to tremble then though do now”
war photographer - relive his trauma
“ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel”
War photographer - feels guilty about the ease of life in england
“probably armed possibly not”
Remains - the possibility haunts him
“the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”
remains - unhealthy coping mechanism
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
remains - colloquial or literal?, guilt
“here in my head when i close my eyes”
remains - guilt eats away at him, ptsd
shift from “we” to “I”
remains - feels personally responsible
“valley of death”
Charge of the light brigade - psalm 23 bible, repetition
“into the jaws of death
into the mouth of hell”
charge of the light brigade - running into a monster
“six hundred”
charge of the light brigade - reminds reader of the extensive loss of life
“theirs but to do and die”
charge of the light brigade - they have to do it and they’ll have to die no choice
“on another occasion”
remains - implies it happens often and is normal
“carted off”
“sort of inside out”
“tosses his guts back into his body”
remains - colloquial conflict can devalue human life
the last stanza has two lines and all the others have four
remains - mimics the soldiers breakdown
“myself somebody else and somebody else”
“same mind”
“all three”
“three of a kind”
remains - trying to justify his actions
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
remains - guilty
sees him when he “sleeps” “dreams” “blinks”
remains - ptsd
“merciless iced eat winds that knive”
exposure - nature is personified to attack them
snowflakes “come feeling” for their faces with “fingering stealth”
exposure - men think they’re more likely to die from the elements
“mad gusts pulling on the wire”
exposure - bad weather
“war lasts, rain soaks, clouds sag stormy”
exposure - sibilance, war and weather being grouped together
“this wizened earth has never troubled us with hay”
storm on the island - (AO3 troubles) positive negative enjambmenf hard to follow
“there are no stacks / or stooks that can be lost”
storm on the island - positive negative enjambment
the sea “spits like a tame cat / turned savage”
storm on the island - similie, weather is dangerous
“we are bombarded by empty air”
storm on the island - attacked by elements
“the wind dives and stafes invisibly”
storm on the island - attacked by wind
“was there a man dismay’d”
charge of the light brigade
“boldly they rode and well”
charge of the light brigade - bravery and did exactly what they were told for their country
“plunged”
“charging”
charge of the light brigade - active tone shows certainty
“yellow hare” which crawls “in an threshing circle”
bayonet charge - could represent the soldier, mimics the soldiers isolation
“cold clockwork of the stars and the nation”
Bayonet charge - tiny insignificant part of a system, fees useless
“finally alone”
war photographer - hints a guilt for escaping the suffering
he photographed a “strangers features” and “sought approval without words”
war photographer - he’s distant from them despite being with them
“they do not care”
war photographer - how he feels different ambuity around “they” assumed to be everyone
sneer of cold command
ozymandias abused his power as a ruler
a shattered visage
ozymandias symbolises loss of power hes unrecognisable his power is useless as he is unable to communicate it (mouth)
sun shines through their borderlines
tissue - paper symbolises human power , human power is stopped by nature
day light break through capitals and monoliths
tissue - natural power > human power “capitals and monoliths” represent government and buildings which are temporary compared to nature
paper that lets the light shine through this is what could alter things
tissue - paper is allocated a large amount of power by humans despite its weaknesses which are made visible by nature
i gave commands then all smiles stopped
my last duchess - lack of explanation shows he doesn’t feel he has to give any account for his actions
will’t you please sit and look at her
my last duchess - forcing people to look at her and is having control over her image even when she is dead
blind me to my own identity
checking out me history - metaphors of blindness (caused by humans) feels he has been badly treated by those incharge
dem told me wha dem what to tell me
checking out me history - pick and choose what they want to share
“Frà Pandolf” and “Claus of Innsbruck”
my last duchess - name dropping in vain to show off
as if she ranked my gift of a nine hundred year old name with anybody’s gift
my last duchess - jealous of her and wants her to value him over anybody else
I choose never to stoop
my last duchess - killed her instead to talking to her
one summer evening (led by her”
the prelude - shows nature exists as a higher power and can make the narrator steal the boat, personifies nature as a her, summer creates a warm feeling creating a pathetic fallacy of calm and idyllic which is how the poems tone begins
“circles glittering” and “ sparkling light”
the prelude - show the beauty, narrator seems inspired and relaxed
“upreared its head” and “strode after”
mountain is personified as a monster forcing him to return the boat, nature influences our behaviour creates a monstrous imagery
for many days
the prelude - the affected him for a long time
“stature” and “measured motion” “trembling”
the prelude - the mountain is “stature” and has “measured motion” which contrasts the narrators “trembling”
“strode after me”
the prelude - he is completely alone and isolated
“struck””still””stars”
the prelude - sibilance creates a threatening mood
“small””still””melted all”
the prelude - consonance ‘l’ shows gentle movement
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