Exposure Flashcards
1
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Title/theme
A
- exposure double meaning, nature or gunfire?
- theme of pointlessness of war. ‘But nothing happens’
2
Q
Beginning
A
‘Our brains ache in the merciless iced wind than knifes us’
- personification
- highlights the struggle of wha the soldiers went through.
- collective ‘our’
- link to shell shock ?
3
Q
Soapaims
A
- ‘whisper, curious, nervous. But nothing happens’ on edge for no reason
- ‘black with snow’ link to trenchfoot, oxymoron or juxtaposition
- ‘bullets streak the silence’ focus on silence not bullets.
- ‘melancholy army’
4
Q
Soapaims 2
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- ‘forgotten dreams’
- ‘mad gusts pulling on the wire’ personification
- ‘rain soaked’
- ‘nonchalance’
- ‘slowly our ghosts drag home’
5
Q
Structure
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- no rhyme scheme
- ## slow paced to show that nothing happens.
6
Q
Ending
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‘But nothing happens’
- shows the pointlessness of war.
- people dying for no reason.
- futility of war.
7
Q
Context
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- poet = Wilfred Owen
- was a soldier in WW1
- wasn’t published at the time due to propaganda of the war.
