Conflict of war

Conflict of war

1. The Charge of the Light Brigade

   • Abuse of power
     • "Forward Light Brigade"
     • "Theirs not to make reply"
     • "Jaws of death"
   • Death
     • "but to do and die"
       • They're dead following orders
       • Juxtaposition of life and death
     • "Valley of death"
     • "mouth of Hell"
       • Riding into death
       • Religious connotations
       • metaphor foreshadowing
   • Structure
     • The rhythm imitates horses galloping
     • A partial rhyme scheme shows partial control

2. Exposure

   • Structure
     • First person plural/narrative
   • Repition
     • "But nothing happens"
       • Used throughout the poem to suggest nothing has changed
       • No hope
   • Nature
     • "All their eyes are ice"
       • Vivid imagery
       • Metaphor for the soldier's internal decease
     • "merciless iced"
       • Nature has been personified to be cruel
       • Pathetic Fallacy

3. Bayonet Charge

   • Structure
     • Enjambement
       • No time to pause
       • Chaos
       • Its a never ending fast face life
   • Declarative sentences
     • "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera"
       • Reasons to fight
       • Repeatedly told this - WWII propaganda
       • Letting go of the idealistic reasons for war
     • "Dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm"
       • Simile
       • panic and danger
       • unexpected

4. Remains

   • Structure
     • Enjambement
     • First person narrative
   • Mixed emotions
     • "Probably armed, possibly armed"
       • Repitition of disbelief
       • Uncertainty
       • Its a blur
     • "sort of inside out"
       • Colloquial language - lack of formality
       • Overkill - repeatedly shot
       • Violent imagery

5. Kamikaze

   • Structure
     • Third person narrative / two narrators and in the past tense
       • Creates distance
       • Supporting the theme of being shunned
       • We are reading suppositions as no one spoke to the pilot
   • Complex verbs
     • "which had been the better way to die"
       • Creates a huge distance between her and the realisation of the reality ofher father's life
       • Wondering if dying as a pilot would be better than dying alone