Exposure

Question 1

Who wrote Exposure?

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

What does Wilfred Owen describe in his poem?

Answer 2

Experiences in WW1 in trench warfare

Question 3

When was Wilfred born?

Answer 3

1893

Question 4

When did Owen Join the British Army?

Answer 4

1915

Question 5

When did Owen die in battle?

Answer 5

4th November 1918

Question 6

What did Owen Originally pursued?

Answer 6

A carer in the church

Question 7

Why did Owen give up on a carer in the Church?

Answer 7

Owen gave up when he felt that the church failed to care for those in it’s locality

Question 8

Owen was a avid (big fan) of a poet called…

Answer 8

John Keats

Question 9

Exposure can be compared to

Answer 9

‘Charge of the Light Brigade’

Question 10

Owen is very keen to dispel what in his poetry?

Answer 10

The myth of the focus on patriotic verse which praised the bravery of the soldiers, a glorified battled - Other poets said it was honourable and exciting

Question 11

In the 191, public hadn’t experienced a major war for over…

Answer 11

100 years

Question 12

What was Owen keen to do?

Answer 12

expose the reality of war

Question 13

Owen didn’t believe like many war poets before him of the “_____________________________________” of war

Answer 13

” glory, honour might, majesty, dominion, or power” of war. Owen believed war was pointless, and this was a recurring theme throughout his poetry - that war is futile

Question 14

In November he wrote to his mother saying:

Answer 14

“The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death therefore he could go”

“Be got back, but I’m not able to tell, how many have ended in hospital.”

Question 15

What does “ The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death therefore he could go” mean?

Answer 15

The way in which soldiers in the trench suffer in the harsh weather conditions dreaming of home, questioning why they are there, thinking why they are there, about their reasons for being in war, what they are doing, and whether it’s worthwhile.

Question 16

The weather conditions could be seen as a bigger threat than the…

Answer 16

enemy soldiers but also the fact that the poems of Wilfred Owen actually refer to the exposure for the truth for the British public of war.

Question 17

Owen does say a quote about the view of war by saying what?

Answer 17

“Look, war is not glorious. it’s not brave and honourable and sort of romantic. It’s awful, and I’m going to expose the reality of the war to you” - link to suffering eg trenches

Question 18

VERSE: “Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us….. wearied we keep awake because the night was silent….

Answer 18

Highly emotive (emotional) vocab choices “wearied” throughout the verse

“Knive us” = pararhyme
Nervously on edge

Question 19

What does pararhyme mean?

Answer 19

words at the end of a line finish in consonant sounds eg silent / sallient

Question 20

Use of personification throughout the text:

Answer 20

"Winds that knive us"
"Mad gusts"
"Down massing in the east her melacoly army"
"Air that shudders"
"Pale flakes with fingering stealth"

Question 21

Why are there links to power of nature?

Answer 21

• “less deadly bullets” very little difference to the soldiers between weather and enemy. BOTH ARE KILLING THEM.

Question 22

What happened at the ending of the poem?

Answer 22

The ending of the poem is very important - establishes penultimate verse that soldiers see themselves as a necessary sacrifice to save lives of the public the poem ends with the contrasting “but nothing happens”

Poem ends how it began.
repetitive cycle
highlighting again the futility of war

Question 23

What other poems that link to exposure?

Answer 23

Bayonet Charge, The charge of the Light Brigade, Remains, war Photographer