Exposure Flashcards
1
Q
Langauge
A
Personification of nature/the weather
= makes it seem more threatening than the human enemy
2
Q
Evidence for langauge
A
‘Mad gusts tugging on the wire’
‘The winds nonchalence’
3
Q
Form
A
Eight stances a fairly long poem to mimic how long time seems to stretch out for them in the bordem of the trenches
Repitition of ‘but nothing happens’- metaphor for lack of progress in the war -they seem annoyed about this
4
Q
Structure
A
Stanza 1-7:past tense
Stanza 8: future tense
=they seem annoyed about this
5
Q
Point of poem
A
The poem defies the convection of war and looks at the weather assualting the soldiers, not another army
