Exposure Flashcards
1
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Context
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2
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‘brains ache/merciless ice east winds that knife us…we keep awake because night is silent’
A
- nature is the enemy
- assonance of ‘I’s slows rhythm down of line and mimics the exposure the poet is feeling
- hard to stay awake reflected by alliteration of ‘w’
3
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‘dawn massing in the east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey’
A
- personification
- pathetic fallacy
- weather arms itself
- soldiers are in danger from the weather not the army
- weather is causes the men to be miserable
- shivering clouds convey shivering soldiers
4
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‘drowse, sun-dozed, littered with blossoms trickling where blackbird furses-is it that we are dying?
A
- soldiers escape their minds
- allusion of blossoms littering
- ‘sun-dozed’ suggest weather wants to kill soldiers
- illusion suggest they are dying
5
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‘drowse, sun-dozed, littered with blossoms trickling where blackbird furses-is it that we are dying?
A
- soldiers escape their minds
- allusion of blossoms littering
- ‘sun-dozed’ suggest weather wants to kill soldiers
- illusion suggest they are dying
6
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‘for love of God seems dying/all eyes ice, but nothing happens’
A
- metaphor
- God wouldn’t allow this for them because he loves us
- men are metaphorically dying
- homophone for eye suggests their identities have become ice
- don’t become friends so it won’t be as sad
- half rhyme reflect how Owen wants a solution to war but nothing happens
- political message of how he wants an end to war