The Drum - Getting down the basics

Chaps, you should have the following annotations at the very least...

‘The Drum’, and how war is presented in it:

• The use of the drum as a symbol for war (throughout)

• The (repeated) onomatopoeia to describe the drum as a bringer of discord (‘drum’s discordant sound’) 
• The personal emotions: ‘I hate...’ 

• ‘Emotive’ language opposed to the effects of war: ‘lures’, ‘sell’, tawdry’ , ‘ravaged’, ‘catalogue of human woes’ 

• Emphatic alliteration, ‘fight, and fall, in foreign lands’ (‘fall’: impression of an inevitable outcome) 

• The ominous repetition (‘round, and round, and round’) 

• The damage to the land (‘ravaged’) 

• The focus on the families of those killed (‘widows’ tears, and orphans’ moans’) 

• The personification of ‘Ambition’ and ‘Misery’

See you tomorrow! :)