1. Bullets smacking the belly out of the air

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

3. 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

4. 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

6. Bayonet
Disorientation
Distress
Combat
Confusion
Regret
Violence
Brutality
Trauma
Panic
Terror
Chaos

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

9. 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…