Mametz Wood

Mametz Wood

1. Birds

   • "broken birds egg of a skull"
     • hollow, child(hood) removed
   • "nesting machine guns"
     • hidden
   • "notes they had sung"
     • "had" - dead
     • sweet sound

2. Futility of War

   • "wasted young"
     • wasted lives
   • "walk, not run"
   • "foreign body
   • "boots that outlasted them"
     • wrong
     • they should go through many boots in their lives, not just 1 pair

3. no choice

   • "told to walk, not run"
     • weren't rushing towards death
   • "absent tongues"
     • can't argue

4. Fragility

   • "chit of bone"
     • small fragment
   • "china plate of a shoulder blade"
   • "relic of a finger"