Come on, Come back

Question	Answer
Come on Come back	imaginary future war
Focus	Future war gas weapon - mind erased 'idiot' (1960's=learning disability) - effect on the individual; chemical war
Form	Free Verse, 8 irregular stanzas
Voice	3rd person, narrator; tone is detached but creates sympathy and anger
Structure	Begins after a battle in which ML5 has been used - affected her mind. She walks into the lake. Enemy soldier - playing pipes - song - reminds reader of songs soldiers sing - representing more convention soldiering
Sound Effects	Sibilance and 'w' - adds to mystical ending - sharp contrast to war. Water calls her back to womb + 'adorable' - sounds out of place - madness of war
Images	Moonlight/midnight - setting romantic, mystic, Gothic - girl 'alone' - 'plunges' into water - sharp contrast to war ideas
Repetition	Song title/line - sung by both sides/ all soldiers. Diction throughout is dark, secret, black, bitterly, ominous, undercurrent - mystic/dark
Punctuation	Long lines and sentences suggesting dream like state of the girl whose mind has been erased rather than action
Other Features	Austerlitz - Napoleonic. War battle v Russ/Austria ML5 - gas; memel- Germany/Lithuania - anti-Jewish - imagined confer

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	Created by JosephBailey almost 11 years ago