Exposure

Question 1

Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army

Answer 1

Personification, emphasises that nature is hostile and brings suffering

Question 2

All their eyes are ice

Answer 2

Metaphor. Describes the extreme effects of the weather that have overcome the soilders

Question 3

Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow

Answer 3

Weather presented as more menacing than bullets

Contrasting images of black and snow are unsettling. They highlight the horrors of being exposed to the elements

Question 4

Our brain ache in the merciless iced east winds that knives

Answer 4

Personification. Makes the weather seem deadly and menacing and characterises the weather as the real enemy

Question 5

Slowly, our ghosts drag home

Answer 5

Metaphor,suggests that war has sucked all humanity out of them

Question 6

But nothing happens

Answer 6

Repetitions, gives the reader a sense of bordom

Question 7

How many stanzas are there

Answer 7

There are five line stanzas

Mirrors repetivness

Question 8

What is the ryhme scheme

Answer 8

ABBAC

Creates an unsetting feeling