Bayonet Charge Deals with How Humans Deal with War. Compare This to Another Conflict Poem

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‘Bayonet Charge’ shows how humans deal with war by showing war from a single person’s point of view. It is told in 3rd person as if the poet is watching this happen. ‘Suddenly he awoke and was running’ ‘suddenly he awoke’ shows how the poet is writing as if he is seeing this happen. It also shows how quick war is- ‘Suddenly’ this shows that he is right in the middle of the action and everything is happening quickly. ‘Suddenly he awoke’ is a metaphor because he hasn’t just woken up. It could mean that he has just realised what is going on because the conflict has taken over his mind. ‘Running’ shows that he is heading towards or away from the conflict. Similarly In ‘At the Border, 1979’ a family are essentially ‘running’ away from conflict to escape death and to seek a better life. ‘we grabbed a drink – soon everything would taste different.’ ‘we grabbed a drink’ shows how desperate they are because they didn’t just get a drink they ‘grabbed’ a drink. ‘Soon everything would taste different.’ This shows how unpatriotic the family is because they think that everything would be better in a different country including the taste of things. ‘It is you last check-in point in this country’ this shows that the family are escaping the conflict because they can’t deal with the conflict. ‘This country’ could show that people are that disgraced with their countries conflict and attitude towards war they don’t even have a name that could describe it. Regret is a main feeling in ‘Bayonet Charge’. ‘The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye’ shows he regrets signing up to fight for his country because he has seen the reality of war. ‘patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye’ shows he is no longer patriotic because it ‘had brimmed in his eye’ but no longer does. ‘patriotic tear’ shows that he once cried for his

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