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Reality of Conflict (Bayonet Charge (Discomfort (Violent imagery ('…
Reality of Conflict
Bayonet Charge
Confused and helpless
'running'
'stumbling'
No control of situation
Discomfort
'raw-seamed hot khaki'
'lugged'
Violent imagery
'Bullets smacking the belly out of the air'
Pain
Physical description creates noise and confusion
'blue crackling air'
Completely surrounded by danger
Patriotism and principles 'dropped like luxuries'
No use in heat of battle
Exposure
Bleak imagery conveys pain
Frost 'puckering foreheads crisp'
Imagine flesh freezing
Wind noise is 'twitching agonies of men'
Vivid picture of wounded soldier
No room for patriotism or heroism
'cringe in holes'
Rhetorical questions
Pointlessness of suffering
Hopeless tone
Little chance of surviving
Accept their presumed fate
Remains
Morally complicated decisions
Disturbing feeling of responsibility
'his bloody life in my bloody hands'
Graphic images
Vivid picture of horrors
'broad daylight'
Unable to remain detached from reality
Sleep interrupted by a man being 'torn apart'
Haunted by memories
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Noisy and frightening picture of battle
Onomatopoeia
'thunder'd'
Verbs
'flash'd'
Relentless galloping rhythm
Men's bravery and heroism
Distance between speaker and battle
Recounted like a story in chronological order