Exposure Flashcards
“Our…”
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced East winds that knive / us…
“But…”
But nothing happens.
Structural point, end of stanzas
What are we doing here?
Is it that we are dying?
We turn back to our dying.
For love of God seems dying.
“bullets…”
bullets streak the silence./Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow
“on us…”
on us the doors are closed
who wrote it
Wilfred Owen
his role in war
joined 1915, lieutenant, killed in action a week before end of war
weather in trenches
soldiers ‘exposed’ to extreme cold; frostbite and hypothermia killed many
victorian attitudes to war
as heroic and glorious persisted. Owen challenged this attitude with war poetry and show reality
loss of faith
many soldiers experienced horrors in trenches so they lost faith
