Exposure

Question 1

There brains ache in the wind that stab them. First line of poem

Answer 1

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us….”

Question 2

Repetition throughout the whole play. Ends on this line. Anticlimactic.

Answer 2

“But nothing happens.”

Question 3

Simile. Shows the pain caused by both nature and man

Answer 3

“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles,”

Question 4

Feels like the war is somewhere else. Biblical reference to Jesus as Jesus tells the end of the world. Rumour.

Answer 4

“Like a dull rumour of some other war”

Question 5

Questions the point of War

Answer 5

“What are we doing here”

Question 6

Wilfred Owen

Answer 6

Experience in the first world war on the frontlines. Exposure was written during world war 1

Question 7

About ghosts. Suggest they are no longer complete or alive. The assurance of the ‘O’ sound makes the imaginery journey long and painful.

Answer 7

“Slowly our ghosts drag home”

Question 8

Either Their love for God is dying or that God’s love for them is dying.

Answer 8

“For love of God seems dying”