Exposure

Question 1

Context?

Answer 1

Written by Wilfred Owen during WW1, in the trenches, nature is the enemy, horror of war doesnt come from shooting its from harsh conditions aswell

Question 2

Why is there lots of Ellipsis, caesura?

Answer 2

create a sense of boredom, they are waiting and antisipating conflict, sometimes the cold gets them before the enemy could

Question 3

‘what are we doing here?’
‘Is it that we are dying?’

Answer 3

rhetorical question, wilfred owen is criticising the war and its pointlessness, he sees suffering

Question 4

‘all their eyes are ice’

Answer 4

literally- really freezing cold, eyes have glazed over
metaphorical- they have lost their soul, thing that keeps them going. the fire inside them

Question 5

‘slowly our ghosts drag home’

Answer 5

they are already dead, imagining they will die, they have no meaning. they are destined to die

Question 6

‘merciless iced east winds that knive us’

Answer 6

merciless- maximum punishment, connotations of torture, nature is presented as a real enemy, stabbing them, how powerful they are

Question 7

What can you compare it to power of nature?

Answer 7

storm on the island

Question 8

How can you compare it for reality of conflict?

Answer 8

remains