Compare how poets present the experience of soldiers in Bayonet Chargeand one other poem from Conflict.

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Compare how poets present the experience of soldiers in ‘Bayonet Charge’and one other poem from Conflict. In Bayonet Charge we follow the protagonists view throughout a battle, and Hughes questions the reasons behind war and if it's justified. A point further reinstated in Futility. The lead character in Bayonet Charge "suddenly" awakes and is now "running". We feel that the protagonist is unprepared, and here this is a metaphor to portray how men are joining the war unaware of what is to come, a sense of bewilderment in a result of the misleading propaganda via the government. Moreover, this emotion is exemplified again when Hughes incorporates imagery to describe his uniform as "hot khaki", suggesting he's sweating with fear, as if he's been
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misplaces into a battle scenario. We feel terror for him as if it's like ourselves being there, we aren't expecting it, the effect is one of fear for the soldier. The point is further reinstated in Owen's Futility, as once again the narrator describes how men were hushed into war, unaware of the grunt of what is to come. The fields are "half sown" almost as if the person worked on his farm was thrown into a battle ground, without even having the chance to finish his farm. Also suggesting a sense of potential, this man could have been an ...

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