Exposure

Question 1

Repeated multiple times at the end of stanzas throughout the poem.

Answer 1

“But nothing happens”

Question 2

They aren’t afraid of the bullets anymore, they are afraid of dying from the cold

Answer 2

“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”

Question 3

Personification
Physically attacked by the wind. At war with the weather rather than the enemy.
Highlights the intense pain and brutality of the weather.

Answer 3

“East winds that knive us”

Question 4

A brutal simile comparing the winds actions to the dying twitches of men caught in the wire

Answer 4

“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles”

Question 5

What does the use of the rhyme scheme ABBA in the first four lines of each stanza represent?

Answer 5

the repetitiveness of trench life

Question 6

2 themes of exposure?

Answer 6

Reality of War
Power of Nature

Question 7

2 poems to link this poem to?

Answer 7

Charge of the light Brigade
Storm on the Island

Question 8

Metaphor which suggests that the war has sucked all the life out of the soldiers and further reminds the readers that they are on the brink of death.

Answer 8

“Slowly, our ghosts dragged home”