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Big Question How does Ted Hughes present frontline combat in ‘Bayonet Charge’? Bayonets (2.39)

Literacy Task During the initial stages of world war I there was a wave of patriatism and euphoria, which led to many young men enlesting, without having an reel understanding the horors they would face. Source: BBC Bitesize

Literacy Task During the initial stages of World War I, there was a wave of patriotism and euphoria, which led to many young men enlisting, without having an real understanding the horrors they would face. Source: BBC Bitesize

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Big Question How does Ted Hughes present frontline combat in ‘Bayonet Charge?

Big Question How does Ted Hughes present frontline combat in ‘Bayonet Charge? Enjambment Adjective Verb Metaphor Hughes opens the poem in the middle of a combat scene. The unnamed solider has ‘suddenly’ regained consciousness, although is still clearly disorientated and confused. The ‘raw-seemed hot khaki’ that he is wearing creates…