I got a bit obsessed with analysing the patriotic tear line... His patriotism was originally in the form of a tear, which has connotations of emotion suggesting he was passionate about war and it being the right thing to do - probably due to propaganda. Equally, when it leaves, it is coming from "the centre of his chest"; it was held in his heart. This idea of war as the right thing was deep rooted in him, and he felt strongly about fighting. Yet when he is actually at war, he realises the true horror and his patriotism is purged from his body as he becomes disillusioned with war. Yet it leaves his body like "molten iron", suggesting it is a painful process as he is realising that he was wrong in his view of war. Equally, the iron could be weighing him down, making it harder to fight - just as it is harder to fight when you no longer believe in the cause you are fighting for and have lost the patriotism that motivated you.
you know the tear and the molten part, at one point it could also be taken in a negative way because all that sounds really aggressive and kinda like a satan you get the imagery of something evil, which could mean he was trying to tell that the soldier s life could have negative aspects after this war because a tear could leave a scar. also the fact that right in the next verse the use of question mark and full stop suggests how he started thinking this time and that quote was foreshadowing this.
the use of the words "molten iron" can suggest that his ideas about war and his patriotism is weighing him down and in order to be able to make it out alive which is his main aim , he has to release the emotions he has about patriotism and has accept that war isn't what it is cracked up to be
me: *writes a whole page of analysis on how this poem links to Wilfred Owens poetry* Mr bruff: you probably wont actually need to use this for your gcse its just interesting Me: 😦
I can't wait until my exams are other I find reading some poem's interesting however the last thing I want to be doing early in the morning is writing about poem's,I have to be in the right mood to enjoy anything school related otherwise I feel very bored and tired until I finish doing it which is usually a while because it needs to be done right.
A hare is an innocent animal and could be a symbol of innocent people, when the hare gets killed, it shows us that innocent people always die during war
i dunno if this will help but anyway: in the third line the soldier is "stumbling across a field...towards a green hedge" notice how its says "towards a green hedge " this makes the "hedge" seem far away from the soldier and the use of the preposition "towards" conveys the idea that the soldiers sense of direction is vague and unspecific, therefore, further emphasising the soldiers confusion and disproportionate state of mind. but that's not it... Hughes had repeated this in the last stanza but now the soldier "plunge[s]...toward the green hedge"Here the soldier is not "stumbling" anymore inferring that he is significantly more aware of his surroundings and more in control of his actions.Also the "hedge" is now distinct and clear to the soldier, Hughes shows this by using the definite article"the" instead of the indefinite "a". By confirming the soldier is focused, Hughes heightens the important of the next line "king, honour, human dignity, etcetra". The soldier really has stopped believing in these values and is instead driven by Adrenalin and fear. It could mean that the values the soldier used to have of his country are now useless to him, they wont help him survive the realities of we, maybe he feels betrayed because what his"king" told him about "honour" and "human dignity" was really just them trying to trap him into this fantasy of war but he still"plunge[s]" he still goes and and follows his order, not for them but for himself "to get out of that blue crackling air"this coveys that the soldier feels trapped. The "blue crackling air" could be a metaphor for all the unfulfilled promises and expectations he was told. sorry i was only gonna write 3 sentences.
My interpretation of what the hare represents could be Hughes alluding to the story of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’- in that the hare lost because he thought he’d win. Its arrogance got in the way of it considering it could lose. This draws on the reality of the patriotic soldiers who went over the trenches, racing towards their enemy and then being killed- their bodies becoming tangled in barbed wire. The wider point playing on the disillusionment of war quickening a soldier’s impending death.
I had the idea that the use of "field of clods" with clods meaning lumps of earth could be ambiguous and means literal dirt or is using a euphemism to describe dead bodies. It could however show the upper authorities disregard to these deaths, and present us with the idea that the upper authorities are treating the soldiers and casualties like dirt.
Later in his career, Hughes appears to change from this euphemistic style which you have touched on to a more crude and explicit viewpoint in poems such as "In Laughter" where Hughes completely 'un-euphemises' the violence which is present and in fact humourises it. This might be as a consequence of the tragedy and pain which Hughes felt through his life (e.g. the suicide of two of his wives and the death of his child which all came after he wrote the euphemistic "Bayonet Charge" but before the contrary "In Laughter" and Crow saga). Therefore, Hughes change in style and stance may be expressive of how violence and your perspective on violence is very much dependent on personal experiences and tragedies which links to how, before experiencing these said tragedies, Hughes had to make his poetry reminiscent of those who had such as Wilfred Owen, but by experiencing the pain he did in his later life, Hughes gained a greater ability to truly describe in such an explicit nature, the violence and tragedies of life and the melancholy darkness which stems from this.
Analysis of the "bullets smacking the belly out of the air ". In this dense, complex and multi-layered line the bullets and the air are personified; the ‘bullets’ do the ‘smacking’ and the air has a ‘belly’. Note that ‘smacking’ is a sharp onomatopoeic sound, suggesting - ironically - a child’s punishment. What these soldiers are doing is anything but child-like. But here, instead of the air being pushed out of his lungs or stomach (as happens when someone is winded), Hughes inverts what the reader might expect, so that the ‘belly’ is pushed ‘out of the air’. Fear, it seems upturns everything It is as if the world is inverted, inanimate things become animate, the normal order is destroyed.
ItIsEverydayViv it’s highly likely it’s gonna be this tomorrow because it was last years poem. So I’ve revised this and exposure to compare to- fingers crossed it will come up
FourSidedTringle yeah it will be. The question I had was on the 2017 paper and it was something like how does Hughes present the effects of war . I hope it goes well for you
The use of "yellow hare" could not be Real, but a ball of fire, but in the daze the solider sees it as a yellow hare, this could ultimately show how the soldier is no longer sane, and his brain can no loner bare with seeing any more destruction. great videos tho!
I always interpreted it as an anti-personal mine that the ground 'threw up' when triggered and and exploded at head level in a 'threshing circle' of 'flame'
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I have an idea what do you guys think? 'Air' and 'hare' is an example of extended half rhyme creating connotations of unity and separation in turn creating the sense that nature a strong united force is being shattered by the brutality of war.
I think you could argue that the simile "He was running like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running" means that he runs like someone who has been startled by something, and they don't know what exactly it is that's startled them, only that they have to run and that they're in danger. The fact that he's listening between his footsteps for the reason why he's running shows firstly that he's running very fast and also that he's got no idea whats going on and its pretty much pure instinct. This ties in well with the animalistic, rugged theme in the poem (use of "raw" in first line, words like "Smacking" and "smashed") and also the idea of chaos and disorder shown in the enjambment and caesura and the use of the word "suddenly" at the start.
"Smacked the belly out of the air." Could be seen as personification on the "air" too, like you mentioned. However an alternative interpretation is that because we are seeing, as readers, the air with a "belly" which is a human characteristic, Owen is presenting nature as human like, and the fact that the bullet has "smacked the air" out of it, shows that nature is being defeated. You could use this as a comparison to Exposure or Ozymandias, which both present nature as MORE powerful than man.
This is also reinforced by the "yellow hare." The hare is another indirect link to nature, and due to it being another victim of war, it presents the idea of how man and war is more powerful than nature.
the quote "yellow hare" connotates innocence and vulnerability throughout the war and that no matter what, even the innocent can be affected. As well as this, the word "yellow" for me connotates happiness and joy, but also a sense of cowardness . It shows that no matter what you are and which background you come from, you can inevitably be affected by war. Sorry if it lacking in detail and doesn't make sense im only in year 9 lol
Same I got confused I thought he was talking about a the mustard gas so I said it in class and Miss said that it wasn't but it was a clever idea to refer to it
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As a DT student, I looked at the molten iron line in a weird way. Just like molten iron can be cast into a certain mould, the soldier has been cast as one by society, or perhaps their expectations of what a soldier should be.
i was having a discussion to a friend about this same quote- the fact that his 'core' is made from iron, and not flesh and bones, creates a sense of robotics and autonomy, rather than being a human like feature, tying very neatly with your idea about expectations of a soldier. This is also backed up by how this 'core' is located in 'the centre of his chest', proving how this cannot refer to a heart, but a chip or program showing how fighting in a war can strip one of their humility and individualism.
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These videos are my life saver right now, when I found your channel I can honestly say that I was relieved! I'm learning more than what I do in class! Thank you for elaborating on these poems! I'm hoping that I can use this knowledge to my advantage in my exams in 2 weeks time :)
in the last stanza you can talk about how the colour imagery (green hedge, yellow hare, blue crackling air) represents a bright, happy life which juxtaposes the idea that they're about to die
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Brilliant analysis your an influential role model and I love the fact you take out a lot of time to find more unique divergent meanings which makes your analysis stands out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just so you know Mr Bruff, the instant impact into the action through the word “suddenly” had the technical term ‘in media res’. It is taken from AS film studies but the vocabulary is also applicable to English!
So my teacher said "Go on TH-cam find Mr. Bruff's video on this poem and write notes". At that point we hadn't studied the poem at all. After watching thus video my anthology page is full with notes. Litterraly I have no space for anything else. Thank you for making this video 🙇♂️👍
Hi Mr. Bruff I think it would be a very good idea for you to put an exam question relating to the poems which you are covering at the end of the videos. Just a suggestion since I think it would be very helpful to utilize the knowledge you are giving us.
I've come up with my own analysis on one of the lines in the poem and since I've got no one to confirm it with I thought who better to ask than Mr bruff! Okay so for "bullets smacking the belly out of the air" I feel as though this is ambiguous because as well as emphasising the impacts that war had on nature, the word 'air' could be a pun for the word "heir" highlighting that the impacts of war were so horrific that it wounded the soldiers entire progeny and since Hughes' father served as war I feel it would be appropriate. It could also be highlighting how many of the men on the front were young and when they were shot, not only the soldier died but their entire line of decedents that they were yet to have... So yeah I just wanted to know if its okay, since my exams on Friday and I'm not confident enough to use it
As someone self-studying (I'm resitting-still year 11!-so my school doesn't teach it again) I can confirm these points are fabulous. I feel so much more ready to tackle the revision-after I type up the notes of course! Thank you, Mr Bruff! #CGPtheworst #MrBruff
The impersonal use of the personal pronoun 'he' throughout doesn't just show how this soldier in the poem represents all soldiers and national struggle during WW1. It could also shows that, during war, soldiers are no longer people with names and lives, they are just killing machines and pawns. They are just soldiers.
My analysis for the patriotic tear line and subsequent molten iron line, was that the tear brimming in his eye deteriorates his vision (his eyesight is more blurry) this is representative of how the idealised and patriotic view of war that is shown in propaganda masks what war is truly like. Furthermore the adjective 'molten' connoted to heat and thus danger, this therefore illustrates that the false idea of war is only damaging - possessing this view would 'burn' you
I find this to be the most difficult poem besides Tissue. I like it in a way but London and Exposure will always be the ones I love and of course My Last Duchess is classic.
i think the first line 'suddenly he awoke and was running' means suddenly he realised what was happening rather than the more literal interpretation 'he woke up' :)
How I see the yellow hare is this: The hare connotes with spring (another similarity between “Bayonet Charge” and “Spring Offensive”) and the hare is yellow, connoting the freshness that comes with spring. Hares are generally quick, full of energy, optimistic, happy. These are descriptions of something that is innocent - such as nature. The hare being killed is Ted Hughes mourning the damage that war causes upon innocent nature. Dead things decay, a ‘decayed’ yellow can represent sickness - this sickness of the earth is caused by killing nature. Those who kill things that are innocent may have a sickness in their mind - making them think that committing indescribably horrible acts is fine. If this is completely off in your view, please don’t judge me on it lol
This is my favourite poetry analysis of yours that I have watched so far , it gave me so many new and interesting ideas ! Thanks so much , I hope I can write about this poem in my mock exam tomorrow !
Cheers man, I'm taking my third English Mock Exam tomorrow and I believe I am comparing Bayonet Charge and Exposure, somehow relating it to power as my teacher said the question will be related to power, maybe showing how power is hinted within the emotions of both soldiers. This helped for a little last minute revision, many thanks!
the repetition of the word "raw" could be ambiguous and could suggest the solider is raw, young, experienced, not ready .It could also suggest they are being treated like meat by the upper authority, used for slaughter. Lastly, it could be a wound,red,internal hurt.
Thank you so much for these videos. Absolutely no way I'd have a change of an 8 or 9 without you, these videos are brilliant and explain exactly the sort of analysis needed for those grades! Now I just have to remember it... :)
+mrbruff Maybe the hare is yellow because it has been dramatically affected by the war, it has changed, like the soldiers. This shows the power of war on everything. P.S. Your videos are so helpful, i'm actually starting to enjoy english!!
hey mr bruuf.excellent vid and analysis.just wanted to point out though that a caesura is not a sentence which is not stopped in the middle of a line with either a full stop or a coomma but rather a change in tone in the poem very clearly seen in extract from the prelude
The words ‘cold clockwork’ demonstrate that he is merely a hand on a clock- often ignored and overlooked. He is an afterthought and exploited by much more powerful forces (the government). The use of alliteration and harsh sounds represents the cruel nature of war making him feel powerless and vulnerable. The stars and nations decide his fate and work unemotionally and mechanically like the cold clockwork. The whole physical universe is like a clockwork.
Thank you Mr B! Thinking about that second stanza, 'was running like a man who...runs listening...for the reason of his still running' and found this from NYT obit, a quote from London Times: ''He wanted to capture not just live animals, but the aliveness of animals in their natural state: their wildness, their quiddity, the fox-ness of the fox and the crow-ness of the crow." It seems to me that this sentence that goes and reasons nowhere is doing exactly this for the soldier: it forces us to stop and look at him as he is. It's a simile that doubles back on the thing to which it's compared. The point gets extended a bit further by the oxymoronic 'still running' which leads on to the 'statuary in mid-stride'.... makes me think of toy WWI soldiers, also of a WWI memorial in NY. Perhaps the whole poem could be read as a glimpse of the reality that led to those statues (which TH himself had seen at home, and then in statue form abroad). Memory so easily distracts us from the thing we're trying to remember - TH, looking at the statues and knowing his own Dad, would have known what a huge gap there was between public remembrance (the statues) and personal reliving/PTSD. What did it mean for his Dad to be remembered? Who was his Dad, really? What was the Dad-ness of his Dad?
The "cold clockwork" demonstrates the mechanization of the soldiers. Once the soldiers have been wound up (like a clockwork toy), they cant stop. This is emphasised by the idea that he was just a cog in the machine.
Isn't comparing a completely different poem in a question about comparing specific poems a bit counterproductive. Great idea and don't mean to insult, just a bit worried about putting the idea about spring offensive
Thank you so much for the conflict poems you've analysed so far. They had some excellent information which is really helpful and useful for me as I'm studying this cluster and doing my exam in about.. 2 weeks? I appreciate everything you do for us x
mrbruff You're welcome! No worries, I doubt any of us were really expecting anymore before then, because, like you said in your mailbox Monday videos, the poetry analysis takes a long time to make. Thank you anyway Mr Bruff!! :D
SugarBubbles2000 Hey, this may seem weird and you probably won't reply but I just wanted to ask you a few questions. Firstly, what grade did you get in the end for English literature (if you don't mind me asking)? Also, do you have any tips for a current year 11 who is going to sit their exam in around a month? Thanks!
Hiya! :) Sure go ahead! I got an A in GCSE literature (it was some miracle tbh.. I never got higher than a B for english up till then!) Some tips huh? Well I would say that, for english literature, you just need to spend some time learning key points for each poem/short story (you don't need to learn EVERYTHING but enough so you can say something about it in the actual exam). Have a look at the previous exams and see which ones have come up and not and make it a priority to learn more of those ones. Also don't neglect the ones you find hard/difficult to understand. Try your best to analyse on your own. Come up with your own ideas since there's going to be so many people analysing those poems so you want to be original. You can pinch ideas from the internet and revision books if you find that difficult (I struggled a LOT with analysing on my own so I was scribbling down every single contribution from my classmates in english class lol, like anything they said was far better than anything I could ever come up with) but don't depend too much on external sources unless they're really good ideas that you can expand on. In the actual exam, just write as much as you can. I was more of a spontaneous writer so I wrote anything that came into my head in some sort of coherent manner that was legible. If you prefer spending 5 minutes planning, do so. But you need to do more actual writing. Your hand will ACHE but keep going. Also two well-analysed points are better than 4 not so good ones, so get priorities straight. And avoid going on tangents unless you can get to the point quick. Sorry if i came back kinda late, I only check these notifs when I'm on a computer. Good luck with your GCSEs! For anymore questions just ask!
SugarBubbles2000 Thank you so much! You are a life saver! I am currently doing quite well (not to sound cocky or anything) in English however, the closed book exam thing is freaking me out a lot. Especially when I have 18 exams all together, in less than one month. I just feel like I don't have enough time to memorise quotes. You have truly helped me and I now feel a little less stressed. Also, you replied just in time as I have spent all day today, after school, to revising lots of English Lit. Perfectly timed! Thank you, once again! Also, well done on your A, that's wonderful, I hope to do just as well as you did.
comparing bayonet charge to Spring Offensive isn't too useful because it os not in the cluster thus it could become a bit confusing if you were to be comparing 3 poems . Anyway , thank you for the video !!!!
I got a bit obsessed with analysing the patriotic tear line...
His patriotism was originally in the form of a tear, which has connotations of emotion suggesting he was passionate about war and it being the right thing to do - probably due to propaganda. Equally, when it leaves, it is coming from "the centre of his chest"; it was held in his heart. This idea of war as the right thing was deep rooted in him, and he felt strongly about fighting. Yet when he is actually at war, he realises the true horror and his patriotism is purged from his body as he becomes disillusioned with war. Yet it leaves his body like "molten iron", suggesting it is a painful process as he is realising that he was wrong in his view of war. Equally, the iron could be weighing him down, making it harder to fight - just as it is harder to fight when you no longer believe in the cause you are fighting for and have lost the patriotism that motivated you.
+Sarah Cat nicely explained
Thank you so much this is so well explained!
you know the tear and the molten part, at one point it could also be taken in a negative way because all that sounds really aggressive and kinda like a satan you get the imagery of something evil, which could mean he was trying to tell that the soldier s life could have negative aspects after this war because a tear could leave a scar. also the fact that right in the next verse the use of question mark and full stop suggests how he started thinking this time and that quote was foreshadowing this.
the use of the words "molten iron" can suggest that his ideas about war and his patriotism is weighing him down and in order to be able to make it out alive which is his main aim , he has to release the emotions he has about patriotism and has accept that war isn't what it is cracked up to be
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me: *writes a whole page of analysis on how this poem links to Wilfred Owens poetry*
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I can't wait until my exams are other I find reading some poem's interesting however the last thing I want to be doing early in the morning is writing about poem's,I have to be in the right mood to enjoy anything school related otherwise I feel very bored and tired until I finish doing it which is usually a while because it needs to be done right.
You could still use it, it could be classed as insightful which is top band.
A hare is an innocent animal and could be a symbol of innocent people, when the hare gets killed, it shows us that innocent people always die during war
A timid hare caught in the headlights of war
thanks thats acc helpful
i dunno if this will help but anyway:
in the third line the soldier is "stumbling across a field...towards a green hedge" notice how its says "towards a green hedge " this makes the "hedge" seem far away from the soldier and the use of the preposition "towards" conveys the idea that the soldiers sense of direction is vague and unspecific, therefore, further emphasising the soldiers confusion and disproportionate state of mind.
but that's not it...
Hughes had repeated this in the last stanza but now the soldier "plunge[s]...toward the green hedge"Here the soldier is not "stumbling" anymore inferring that he is significantly more aware of his surroundings and more in control of his actions.Also the "hedge" is now distinct and clear to the soldier, Hughes shows this by using the definite article"the" instead of the indefinite "a". By confirming the soldier is focused, Hughes heightens the important of the next line "king, honour, human dignity, etcetra". The soldier really has stopped believing in these values and is instead driven by Adrenalin and fear. It could mean that the values the soldier used to have of his country are now useless to him, they wont help him survive the realities of we, maybe he feels betrayed because what his"king" told him about "honour" and "human dignity" was really just them trying to trap him into this fantasy of war but he still"plunge[s]" he still goes and and follows his order, not for them but for himself "to get out of that blue crackling air"this coveys that the soldier feels trapped. The "blue crackling air" could be a metaphor for all the unfulfilled promises and expectations he was told.
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My interpretation of what the hare represents could be Hughes alluding to the story of the ‘Tortoise and the Hare’- in that the hare lost because he thought he’d win. Its arrogance got in the way of it considering it could lose. This draws on the reality of the patriotic soldiers who went over the trenches, racing towards their enemy and then being killed- their bodies becoming tangled in barbed wire. The wider point playing on the disillusionment of war quickening a soldier’s impending death.
I had the idea that the use of "field of clods" with clods meaning lumps of earth could be ambiguous and means literal dirt or is using a euphemism to describe dead bodies. It could however show the upper authorities disregard to these deaths, and present us with the idea that the upper authorities are treating the soldiers and casualties like dirt.
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Later in his career, Hughes appears to change from this euphemistic style which you have touched on to a more crude and explicit viewpoint in poems such as "In Laughter" where Hughes completely 'un-euphemises' the violence which is present and in fact humourises it.
This might be as a consequence of the tragedy and pain which Hughes felt through his life (e.g. the suicide of two of his wives and the death of his child which all came after he wrote the euphemistic "Bayonet Charge" but before the contrary "In Laughter" and Crow saga). Therefore, Hughes change in style and stance may be expressive of how violence and your perspective on violence is very much dependent on personal experiences and tragedies which links to how, before experiencing these said tragedies, Hughes had to make his poetry reminiscent of those who had such as Wilfred Owen, but by experiencing the pain he did in his later life, Hughes gained a greater ability to truly describe in such an explicit nature, the violence and tragedies of life and the melancholy darkness which stems from this.
Analysis of the "bullets smacking the belly out of the air ".
In this dense, complex and multi-layered line the bullets and the air are personified; the ‘bullets’ do the ‘smacking’ and the air has a ‘belly’. Note that ‘smacking’ is a sharp onomatopoeic sound, suggesting - ironically - a child’s punishment. What these soldiers are doing is anything but child-like. But here, instead of the air being pushed out of his lungs or stomach (as happens when someone is winded), Hughes inverts what the reader might expect, so that the ‘belly’ is pushed ‘out of the air’. Fear, it seems upturns everything It is as if the world is inverted, inanimate things become animate, the normal order is destroyed.
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ItIsEverydayViv it’s highly likely it’s gonna be this tomorrow because it was last years poem. So I’ve revised this and exposure to compare to- fingers crossed it will come up
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FourSidedTringle yeah it will be. The question I had was on the 2017 paper and it was something like how does Hughes present the effects of war . I hope it goes well for you
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The use of "yellow hare" could not be Real, but a ball of fire, but in the daze the solider sees it as a yellow hare, this could ultimately show how the soldier is no longer sane, and his brain can no loner bare with seeing any more destruction.
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I always interpreted it as an anti-personal mine that the ground 'threw up' when triggered and and exploded at head level in a 'threshing circle' of 'flame'
I always come for the great videos Mr Bruff does, but even in the comment's sections there is a goldmine of analysis. Thanks mate
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I have an idea what do you guys think? 'Air' and 'hare' is an example of extended half rhyme creating connotations of unity and separation in turn creating the sense that nature a strong united force is being shattered by the brutality of war.
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I think you could argue that the simile "He was running like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs listening between his footfalls for the reason of his still running" means that he runs like someone who has been startled by something, and they don't know what exactly it is that's startled them, only that they have to run and that they're in danger. The fact that he's listening between his footsteps for the reason why he's running shows firstly that he's running very fast and also that he's got no idea whats going on and its pretty much pure instinct. This ties in well with the animalistic, rugged theme in the poem (use of "raw" in first line, words like "Smacking" and "smashed") and also the idea of chaos and disorder shown in the enjambment and caesura and the use of the word "suddenly" at the start.
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"Smacked the belly out of the air." Could be seen as personification on the "air" too, like you mentioned. However an alternative interpretation is that because we are seeing, as readers, the air with a "belly" which is a human characteristic, Owen is presenting nature as human like, and the fact that the bullet has "smacked the air" out of it, shows that nature is being defeated. You could use this as a comparison to Exposure or Ozymandias, which both present nature as MORE powerful than man.
This is also reinforced by the "yellow hare." The hare is another indirect link to nature, and due to it being another victim of war, it presents the idea of how man and war is more powerful than nature.
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the quote "yellow hare" connotates innocence and vulnerability throughout the war and that no matter what, even the innocent can be affected. As well as this, the word "yellow" for me connotates happiness and joy, but also a sense of cowardness . It shows that no matter what you are and which background you come from, you can inevitably be affected by war. Sorry if it lacking in detail and doesn't make sense im only in year 9 lol
Bayonet Charge was the poem that was in the exam, this helped!!
Thank you. The exam was about bayonet charge and I compared it with remains. You saved me.
Could the "yellow hare that rolled like a flame" be referring to Mustard Gas? Which was first used in WW1.
Same I got confused I thought he was talking about a the mustard gas so I said it in class and Miss said that it wasn't but it was a clever idea to refer to it
+Unwanted account Oh ok, thank you.
I was thinking the same thing.
Damn, possibly.... that's really deep
Bro I have exams next week and I am so glad that I have found your channel, it is soooo helpful and finger crossed that I get good grades after watching your vids
As a DT student, I looked at the molten iron line in a weird way. Just like molten iron can be cast into a certain mould, the soldier has been cast as one by society, or perhaps their expectations of what a soldier should be.
i was having a discussion to a friend about this same quote- the fact that his 'core' is made from iron, and not flesh and bones, creates a sense of robotics and autonomy, rather than being a human like feature, tying very neatly with your idea about expectations of a soldier. This is also backed up by how this 'core' is located in 'the centre of his chest', proving how this cannot refer to a heart, but a chip or program showing how fighting in a war can strip one of their humility and individualism.
@@1Stuff565 I ended up with an 8 in Lit lmao, and I'm still doing DT along with Maths, FM, Chem and physics at A Level.
@@amarachiokonkwo3859 damnnn 8 is amazing- im only predicted a 7- hoping to get that up lmao- and is that 5 A-levels!? good subject choices though
@@1Stuff565 There's no point of doing 5 btw except you really want to do them. My school allowed me since I did well at GCSE and now I'm predicted 5 A*s
you help so much! i don't get taught anything about the poems in my school! really appreciate you making these vids xx
+Lara Kiely awesome!
These videos are my life saver right now, when I found your channel I can honestly say that I was relieved! I'm learning more than what I do in class! Thank you for elaborating on these poems! I'm hoping that I can use this knowledge to my advantage in my exams in 2 weeks time :)
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in the last stanza you can talk about how the colour imagery (green hedge, yellow hare, blue crackling air) represents a bright, happy life which juxtaposes the idea that they're about to die
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thank you , i am watching all of the poem analysis you have done and they are very helpful!
+Nazli Celik great
I am just continually surprised by how detailed these vids are... they're SO AMAZING!!!! 😄😄 Thankyou so much @mrbruff I can't even imagine how long this must have taken!!
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!! i'm doing conflict and this was so helpful
Brilliant analysis your an influential role model and I love the fact you take out a lot of time to find more unique divergent meanings which makes your analysis stands out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+Yellowyall Harry thanks
This was so useful, thank you. The overview at the beginning made the entire poem so much easier to understand.
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Just so you know Mr Bruff, the instant impact into the action through the word “suddenly” had the technical term ‘in media res’. It is taken from AS film studies but the vocabulary is also applicable to English!
Yes I've now heard this a lot from students. Thanks
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Ooooooomg conflict poetry finally! Thanks mr bruff do more please!!
I got a 7 in the poetry comparison in the mock because of this video alone. Thanks!
This has made this so much easier to grasp now 😂
+Emma Kenyon great!
YESSSSS MORE CONFLICT POEMS! Thanks a ton Bruff!
So my teacher said "Go on TH-cam find Mr. Bruff's video on this poem and write notes". At that point we hadn't studied the poem at all. After watching thus video my anthology page is full with notes. Litterraly I have no space for anything else. Thank you for making this video 🙇♂️👍
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Hi Mr. Bruff I think it would be a very good idea for you to put an exam question relating to the poems which you are covering at the end of the videos. Just a suggestion since I think it would be very helpful to utilize the knowledge you are giving us.
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I've come up with my own analysis on one of the lines in the poem and since I've got no one to confirm it with I thought who better to ask than Mr bruff!
Okay so for "bullets smacking the belly out of the air" I feel as though this is ambiguous because as well as emphasising the impacts that war had on nature, the word 'air' could be a pun for the word "heir" highlighting that the impacts of war were so horrific that it wounded the soldiers entire progeny and since Hughes' father served as war I feel it would be appropriate. It could also be highlighting how many of the men on the front were young and when they were shot, not only the soldier died but their entire line of decedents that they were yet to have...
So yeah I just wanted to know if its okay, since my exams on Friday and I'm not confident enough to use it
faaizah tasneem did you use it? And was it useful?
for the image of "a yellow hare that rolled like a flame" I thought it could be referring to mustard gas?
This poem has been so helpful as i have a mock exam on the poem and the notes in the video are amazing really glad i found this
I couldn't put into words in regards to how helpful this video was! Thank you so much!
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Wow. Mr Bruff is so well spoken the closed captions work almost perfectly.
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I understood the poem after watching this video
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Bayonet Charge was the named poem in a recent poetry test I did in class and thanks to this video I got my first grade 8! Thank you Mr Bruff
As someone self-studying (I'm resitting-still year 11!-so my school doesn't teach it again) I can confirm these points are fabulous. I feel so much more ready to tackle the revision-after I type up the notes of course! Thank you, Mr Bruff! #CGPtheworst #MrBruff
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The impersonal use of the personal pronoun 'he' throughout doesn't just show how this soldier in the poem represents all soldiers and national struggle during WW1. It could also shows that, during war, soldiers are no longer people with names and lives, they are just killing machines and pawns. They are just soldiers.
You could mention a point about how soldiers were thought of as 'cannon fodder'.
My analysis for the patriotic tear line and subsequent molten iron line, was that the tear brimming in his eye deteriorates his vision (his eyesight is more blurry) this is representative of how the idealised and patriotic view of war that is shown in propaganda masks what war is truly like. Furthermore the adjective 'molten' connoted to heat and thus danger, this therefore illustrates that the false idea of war is only damaging - possessing this view would 'burn' you
I find this to be the most difficult poem besides Tissue. I like it in a way but London and Exposure will always be the ones I love and of course My Last Duchess is classic.
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i think the first line 'suddenly he awoke and was running' means suddenly he realised what was happening rather than the more literal interpretation 'he woke up' :)
Legit watching this video a day before my test ... yellow hare could also suggest the mustard gas
How I see the yellow hare is this: The hare connotes with spring (another similarity between “Bayonet Charge” and “Spring Offensive”) and the hare is yellow, connoting the freshness that comes with spring. Hares are generally quick, full of energy, optimistic, happy. These are descriptions of something that is innocent - such as nature. The hare being killed is Ted Hughes mourning the damage that war causes upon innocent nature. Dead things decay, a ‘decayed’ yellow can represent sickness - this sickness of the earth is caused by killing nature. Those who kill things that are innocent may have a sickness in their mind - making them think that committing indescribably horrible acts is fine.
If this is completely off in your view, please don’t judge me on it lol
Like your analysis!
This is my favourite poetry analysis of yours that I have watched so far , it gave me so many new and interesting ideas ! Thanks so much , I hope I can write about this poem in my mock exam tomorrow !
thank you very much for this analysis, very helpful
Really gave me different analysis as to what Is in the cgp book thanks a lot !
This was a life saver because I have home work due in tomorrow and I forgot all about it.
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Bring on the GCSEs!! :)
Ted Hughes does this amazing peoming and it is literally fastening to read and to look at
This is so useful! keep making the great videos mrbruff these are amazing
Cheers man, I'm taking my third English Mock Exam tomorrow and I believe I am comparing Bayonet Charge and Exposure, somehow relating it to power as my teacher said the question will be related to power, maybe showing how power is hinted within the emotions of both soldiers. This helped for a little last minute revision, many thanks!
I find it crazy that you will be in full time work / uni now
this was a great video i appreciate the time and effort you have put in thank u
Loool now I’m revising for my mocks.
the repetition of the word "raw" could be ambiguous and could suggest the solider is raw, young, experienced, not ready .It could also suggest they are being treated like meat by the upper authority, used for slaughter. Lastly, it could be a wound,red,internal hurt.
Thank you so much for these videos. Absolutely no way I'd have a change of an 8 or 9 without you, these videos are brilliant and explain exactly the sort of analysis needed for those grades! Now I just have to remember it... :)
i just want to say thanks this has been realy helpfull to someone who realy quite struggles with poetry
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Thank you this was really helpful!
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+mrbruff Maybe the hare is yellow because it has been dramatically affected by the war, it has changed, like the soldiers. This shows the power of war on everything. P.S. Your videos are so helpful, i'm actually starting to enjoy english!!
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hey mr bruuf.excellent vid and analysis.just wanted to point out though that a caesura is not a sentence which is not stopped in the middle of a line with either a full stop or a coomma but rather a change in tone in the poem very clearly seen in extract from the prelude
The dictionary definition is '(in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.'
Cheers mr Bruff. My English teacher tortures us with this stuff that you give us. Cheers
English lit exam tomoz, been revising since 13:00 binging ur vids
The words ‘cold clockwork’ demonstrate that he is merely a hand on a clock- often ignored and overlooked. He is an afterthought and exploited by much more powerful forces (the government). The use of alliteration and harsh sounds represents the cruel nature of war making him feel powerless and vulnerable. The stars and nations decide his fate and work unemotionally and mechanically like the cold clockwork. The whole physical universe is like a clockwork.
Thank you Mr B! Thinking about that second stanza, 'was running like a man who...runs listening...for the reason of his still running' and found this from NYT obit, a quote from London Times: ''He wanted to capture not just live animals, but the aliveness of animals in their natural state: their wildness, their quiddity, the fox-ness of the fox and the crow-ness of the crow." It seems to me that this sentence that goes and reasons nowhere is doing exactly this for the soldier: it forces us to stop and look at him as he is. It's a simile that doubles back on the thing to which it's compared. The point gets extended a bit further by the oxymoronic 'still running' which leads on to the 'statuary in mid-stride'.... makes me think of toy WWI soldiers, also of a WWI memorial in NY. Perhaps the whole poem could be read as a glimpse of the reality that led to those statues (which TH himself had seen at home, and then in statue form abroad). Memory so easily distracts us from the thing we're trying to remember - TH, looking at the statues and knowing his own Dad, would have known what a huge gap there was between public remembrance (the statues) and personal reliving/PTSD. What did it mean for his Dad to be remembered? Who was his Dad, really? What was the Dad-ness of his Dad?
I recommend putting soft music in the background :) For example: Daniel Kadawatha's A travelling spirit. I prefer the instrumental but its up to you.
The "cold clockwork" demonstrates the mechanization of the soldiers. Once the soldiers have been wound up (like a clockwork toy), they cant stop. This is emphasised by the idea that he was just a cog in the machine.
i'm doing my GCSE'S next year and i'm also hoping for a grade 9, you really have helped me get grade nines so far in class work, thank you very much!
Can u do videos comparing this and one other poem from the power and conflict cluster.
yessssss i need comparing poems
this was the poem in the 2017 exam!!
If you're 2019 year 11s, good luck for English Lit tomorrow !!!!
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Isn't comparing a completely different poem in a question about comparing specific poems a bit counterproductive. Great idea and don't mean to insult, just a bit worried about putting the idea about spring offensive
+Tenebris Slayer it's a context point- maybe not worth writing about in the exam but very useful to help understanding
mrbruff Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up, got a bit confused. The vid overall was a great help, thanks!
Surely this poem couldn't be a dream/nightmare because the poem begins with "suddenly he awoke"
A dream within a dream? It's all fictional anyway because the poet had no experience of war personally
My favourite poem next to exposure
thanks a lot! I have never annotated so much in my life
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Thank you so much for the conflict poems you've analysed so far. They had some excellent information which is really helpful and useful for me as I'm studying this cluster and doing my exam in about.. 2 weeks? I appreciate everything you do for us x
+SugarBubbles 2000 thanks! No time for more before exam
mrbruff You're welcome! No worries, I doubt any of us were really expecting anymore before then, because, like you said in your mailbox Monday videos, the poetry analysis takes a long time to make. Thank you anyway Mr Bruff!! :D
SugarBubbles2000 Hey, this may seem weird and you probably won't reply but I just wanted to ask you a few questions. Firstly, what grade did you get in the end for English literature (if you don't mind me asking)? Also, do you have any tips for a current year 11 who is going to sit their exam in around a month? Thanks!
Hiya! :) Sure go ahead!
I got an A in GCSE literature (it was some miracle tbh.. I never got higher than a B for english up till then!)
Some tips huh? Well I would say that, for english literature, you just need to spend some time learning key points for each poem/short story (you don't need to learn EVERYTHING but enough so you can say something about it in the actual exam). Have a look at the previous exams and see which ones have come up and not and make it a priority to learn more of those ones. Also don't neglect the ones you find hard/difficult to understand.
Try your best to analyse on your own. Come up with your own ideas since there's going to be so many people analysing those poems so you want to be original. You can pinch ideas from the internet and revision books if you find that difficult (I struggled a LOT with analysing on my own so I was scribbling down every single contribution from my classmates in english class lol, like anything they said was far better than anything I could ever come up with) but don't depend too much on external sources unless they're really good ideas that you can expand on.
In the actual exam, just write as much as you can. I was more of a spontaneous writer so I wrote anything that came into my head in some sort of coherent manner that was legible. If you prefer spending 5 minutes planning, do so. But you need to do more actual writing. Your hand will ACHE but keep going. Also two well-analysed points are better than 4 not so good ones, so get priorities straight. And avoid going on tangents unless you can get to the point quick.
Sorry if i came back kinda late, I only check these notifs when I'm on a computer. Good luck with your GCSEs! For anymore questions just ask!
SugarBubbles2000 Thank you so much! You are a life saver! I am currently doing quite well (not to sound cocky or anything) in English however, the closed book exam thing is freaking me out a lot. Especially when I have 18 exams all together, in less than one month. I just feel like I don't have enough time to memorise quotes. You have truly helped me and I now feel a little less stressed.
Also, you replied just in time as I have spent all day today, after school, to revising lots of English Lit. Perfectly timed!
Thank you, once again!
Also, well done on your A, that's wonderful, I hope to do just as well as you did.
comparing bayonet charge to Spring Offensive isn't too useful because it os not in the cluster thus it could become a bit confusing if you were to be comparing 3 poems . Anyway , thank you for the video !!!!
I'm not saying to compare it. What I'm saying is that the poem was an influence on Hughes and therefore would be classed as a context point.
mrbruff okay , my mistake . Thanks!
Very helpful- I've got an exam tomorrow
17:00 for the language analysis of bayonet charge and explanation