1. Vaudevue’s death has been set in the first stanza by creating a lonely atmosphere. The poet has left this girl soldier by herself in the middle of no where buy the only thing is around is a round flat stone. ” She is alone, at midnight in the moonlight”. This quotation makes the reader think why she is alone in the darkness by herself. Also the word ‘alone’ is repeated twice getting us concerned and that the girl is insecure, not safe and vulnerable. The language used in the first stanza gives us the sense of sadness and something terrible has just happened especially because she on a battlefield.

2. A clue that was given to the reader regarding the future was weapon of sort that is used in warfare called M.L.5. We are given the impression that M.L.5 is a sort of pill, tablet or medicine and it makes people lose their memory. In addition this weapon is described as ‘human exterminator’ which means is can potentially kill or end hundreds/thousands of peoples lives by losing their memory. The loss of memory means humans will not remember anything in their past and possible good memories they had.

3. One technique that was used in the poem was the repetition of the word ‘ominous’ and it is used to describe the lake. When you have a ominous feeling it means you have the impression that something bad is going to happen. So when the poet describes the lake in an ominous way and that Vaudevue is near by, an horrific event is going to happen. Another technique used is alliteration was ‘swiftly severing’ this means is slowly/smoothing cut something off. At this point the girl soldier is in an icy-lake and she has dived in and slowly drowning herself.