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How well does Vernon Scannell use the peaceful setting of the English countryside to evoke the horrors of War?
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How well does Vernon Scannell use the peaceful setting of the English countryside to evoke the horrors of War? In the poem "Route March Rest", we follow the march of s company of Soldiers through a small countryside village. The writer uses this setting to illustrate to us, how War travels and moves. The writer does this in several ways, using effective technique. When "B company" are first depicted to us, we are told how they "march in staggered columns", through the "lanes". Lanes being a typical feature of the English countryside, "March[ing], through these "lanes", however, normally the words used to describe the way you would pass through this sort of scene, would not be "march"[ing] in this way. Already, so early on in the poem we can see that "B Company", don't really belong there. They are depicted as a "machine", that metaphorically, "clanked and throbbed". Being described in...
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