English GCSE - Come On, Come Back
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- Come On, Come Back - Stevie Smith
- What's it about?
- Young female soldier who has returned from a battle at Austerlitz and lost her memory. She is distressed and jumps into a lake - she dies before an enemy soldier can kill her.
- Form
- Line lengths are a mixture of short and long which creates a conversation feeling. There is some random rhyme/half rhyme which makes the reader confused.
- Structure
- Told in chronological order and the last three lines link back to the battle creating a circular effect.
- Repitition
- Repeating the title song reminds the reader of everyone who has been killed.
- Surreal language
- Descriptive images and personification make the poem eerie
- Past and future
- References places associated with past wars. I suggests that the war and its casualties are timeless.
- Impersonal attitude
- The narrative voice is very impersonal. The reader might feel sad about her death.
- Irony
- Vaudevue and her enemy have the same favourite song.
- Mystery
- Mysterious elements like moonlight and pipe music
- Comparisons
- Sadness and loss - Futility, The Falling Leaves, Poppies; Death - Out of the Blue, Mametz Wood, Hawk Roosting.
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