Exposure

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Died in ww1
He used to be in the church but left because he thought they didn’t look after the public well
He hated war and thought it was futile and the patriotism is pointless

Question 2

Repetition of anti climax

Answer 2

Ends with an anti climatic line ‘but nothing happens’ - war is always tense but nothing seems to happen. There is an anticipation fuelled by adrenaline but nothing happens.

Question 3

Rhyming stuff

Answer 3

The rhyme scheme is monotonous and repetitive

Use of pararhymes like ‘knife us’ and ‘nervous’ suggesting how the soldiers do not have closure and are always on edge

Question 4

Religious reference

Answer 4

‘For the love of god is dying’ - owen had rejected the church and this line suggests how people lose their beliefs due to suffering in war.
Dying also references Christs death on the cross and how soldiers are dying like Christ to save civilians

Question 5

Personification of weather

Answer 5

‘Winds that knive us’
‘Mad gusts’
Nature is more deadly than enemies

Question 6

Sibilance

Answer 6

‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’ - this represents the harsh sounds of bullets or the shivering soldiers - threat of the environment

Question 7

Ending of the poem

Answer 7

Ends with ‘but nothing happens’ which is cyclical. Repeats how nothing has changed and how nothing has been achieved