https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2 en-us 2018-03-09 20:16:41 UTC 2023-04-05 19:05:12 UTC hello@padlet.com swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615360 Imagery:  Similes? Metaphors Personification? 
Onomatopoeia? 
Sibilance? Alliteration?

Word choice? adjectives? Verbs? Meaning? Rhetorical Questions? Pronouns?
Tenses?
Pronoun?


]]> 2018-03-11 19:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615360 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615718 Why is the last line of each stanza shorter?]]> 2018-03-11 19:19:33 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615718 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615840 2018-03-11 19:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240615840 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240616041 Think about physical pain / mental pain/ hallucinations?
Attitudes to war?
Thoughts about home?]]> 2018-03-11 19:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240616041 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240755432 'Our' = pronoun which suggests camaraderie. All are in the same position.

Ellipses (...) used twice in this stanza to emphasis how long this time is dragging on for.


]]> 2018-03-12 09:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240755432 15wdubbini_poole https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240871218 Is this working?]]> 2018-03-12 14:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240871218 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240915772 Clouds sag stormy ' Alliteration - what's the effect?

]]> 2018-03-12 15:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240915772 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240916418 Alliteration 'sag stormy' create some the effect of sadness

]]> 2018-03-12 15:09:35 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240916418 15hjones https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240916544 Collective pronoun
‘We cringe in holes’. Sense of togetherness. The verb 'cringe' suggests that they are weak and defenseless. There is also a sense of claustrophobia - there is no way out.

'Snow-dazed' suggests that the soldiers are barely coherent. This phrase is set out on it's own to emphasise how badly the elements are affecting them.

'We drowse, sun- dozed' suggests that rather than contemplate their deaths, their thoughts return to home.

'blossoms' is  symbolic of rebirth and this image is juxtaposed with the fear and bleakness of trench warfare.

'blackbird fusses' suggest that they hallucinating due to hypothermia



]]> 2018-03-12 15:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240916544 15fmclauchlan https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917040 Dark-red jewels this could represent blood/death/anger. Could also suggest frozen blood in snow]]> 2018-03-12 15:10:27 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917040 15adodd https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917111 This could link to them hearing something coming closer. There is also 2 different senses in this quote. This could emphasise the nervousness of the men as they could be panicking, using the senses they can to survive. Theses sounds are also their reality.]]> 2018-03-12 15:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917111 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917284

8 stanzas of five lines each = the trauma and struggling the soldiers go through.

The last line of each stanza is shorter and indented which disrupts the rhythmic structure

Hexameters – (verse with 6 beats per line) emphasises the pointlessness of what is going on.

ABBA scheme – regularity emphasises the unchanging nature of daily life in the trenches

Half rhymes – unsettle the reader (Knive us/ nervous)

]]> 2018-03-12 15:10:48 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240917284 15bdincer https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918111 2018-03-12 15:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918111 15mhartmann https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918544 Religious connotations and suggests they are losing hope and faith in God.]]> 2018-03-12 15:12:36 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918544 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918841 The sibilance in the first line could representative of
 the sound made by bullets short by the enemy which in this poem is the weather. 'Sudden successive..'


]]> 2018-03-12 15:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240918841 15adodd https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240919654 2018-03-12 15:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240919654 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240919903 2018-03-12 15:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240919903 15fmclauchlan https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240920144 2018-03-12 15:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240920144 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240920645

]]> 2018-03-12 15:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/240920645 15gkemball https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758097 The word ‘our’ refers to the camaraderie of the soldiers

]]> 2018-03-14 09:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758097 15gkemball https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758541 The phrase “our brains ache”  can relate to ‘when will this end’, thinking about their past , pain from the cold
Personification= “merciless iced east winds” is the brutal enemy out to kill.
Sibilance= ‘Silent, Sentries” negative feeling.

]]> 2018-03-14 09:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758541 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758567 Stanza 5]]> 2018-03-14 09:09:49 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758567 15hjones https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758599 ‘The doors closed’ could suggest two meanings. Literally it could mean that they are locked in and there is no way out. But analytically it could imply in their eyes those doors will always be closed and they will be like that forever and they do not expect to ever go home again.

]]> 2018-03-14 09:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241758599 15wdubbini_poole https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241759634 Cliffhanger makes us wonder what is t come next ]]> 2018-03-14 09:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241759634 15hjones https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241759906 2018-03-14 09:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241759906 15gkemball https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241760163 “But nothing happens” short refrain for effect, repeated 4 times. Regardless of the situation nothing happens.]]> 2018-03-14 09:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241760163 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241762122 2018-03-14 09:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241762122 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241762790 “His frost will fasten on this mud and us” This personification is used to make the reader think that God isn’t treating them well. The weather is threatening and some of them will die from exposure to the elements.]]> 2018-03-14 09:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241762790 swoolley2 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241763857 'slowly our ghosts...' stresses the time it is taking for anything to happen. Assonance in the repeated 'oh' sound emphasizes how slowly time is going.

'ghosts' could suggest that they are not the men they once were. The war has affected them so thoroughly that the effects are irrevocable Alternatively, it could also suggest that they're close to dying or have already died. ]]> 2018-03-14 09:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241763857 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241763885 “Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp” it is so cold that their faces are shrivelling up

]]> 2018-03-14 09:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241763885 https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241764775 The words ‘melancholy’ and ‘misery’ represent a gloomy state of mind which the soiers are going through, they are also going through a mental and/or emotional distress because of the wether.
The effect of ‘misery’ is showing the extreme unhappiness which they are feeling that it is a new day, a new day of war and dealing with the wether.
The quote ‘Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army’ this creates a direct comparison between the wether and the enemy.
Line two gives the impression that the only thing they know now is that ‘war lasts, rain socks, and could sag stormy.

]]> 2018-03-14 09:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241764775 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241764819 “All their eyes are ice” a metaphor could represent how it’s so cold they feel like they can’t see and it could also represent death.]]> 2018-03-14 09:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241764819 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241765673 “The burying party” people are being buried because the cold killed them ]]> 2018-03-14 09:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241765673 15orowley https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241766313 “Shaking grasp” could suggest they’re freezing or they’re in shock]]> 2018-03-14 09:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/swoolley2/cenz9ejkdnj2/wish/241766313