Big 5 Poetry- 'Exposure' quotes and a technique Flashcards
‘the ______ ____ ____ _____ that ____/ us’
‘the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
Adjective ‘Merciless’, Plural pronoun
winds are evil and its a collective experience
‘What are ___ ______ ____?’
‘What are we doing here?’
rhetorical question
starts to question the reasons of war.
‘air that _______ ____ ____ ____,’
‘air that shudders black with snow,’
Personification ‘shudders’
implies air is freezing cold
connotations of fear
‘black’ - evil
‘Is it ____ __ ___ ______?’
‘Is it that we are dying?’
Rhetorical question
Life and death seem much less separate than before.
‘We ____ ____ to our ____.’
‘We turn back to our dying.’
‘On us the _____ ___ ______,’
‘On us the doors are closed,’
Complex and ambiguous image
Could symbolise gates to heaven (lost faith)
‘For ____ of ____ ____ _____.’
‘For love of God seems dying.’
-‘seems dying’ - ambiguous verbs
meanings: men have to die for god OR lost faith in god OR god no longer loves them
‘But _______ ______.’
‘But nothing happens.’
refrain
implies there will be no consequence
Nobody cares they are dying
negative ‘nothing’ - just as dangerous as the war
Who wrote ‘Exposure’?
Wilfred Owen
What are the big ideas in Exposure?
N_______ is more p_______ than m___
The reality of c______ is d_______ and f______
Nature is more powerful than man
The reality of conflict is depressing and futile
What two big 5 poems can you compare with Exposure?
Remains
Kamikaze
‘Our b____ ______’
‘Our brains ache’
Assonance - drawn out sounds, their heads hurt
Opening line of the poem - sets the mood, constant image of danger and pain
‘Sudden _____ flights of bullets ____ the ____’
‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’
sibilance- the bullets
