Exposure Flashcards

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“Our brains ache”

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DOUBLE MEANING!
-brain hurts from the cold
-brain hurt from the psycological effects of war

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“Merciless ice east winds that knive us”

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Personifies that wind is attacking them almost like an enemy

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Worried by, silence,sentries,whisper,curious,nervous”

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Sibilance is used to refelct how anxious they are and that they are waiting for something to happen (get attacked)

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‘But nothing happens’

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Repetition of this phrase gives the readers a sense of boredom caused by waiting and hints at the pointlessness of war

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‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’

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-personification, the nature is presented as more damaging and deadly than the bullets
-‘black’connotes the imagery of death-foreshadowing the soldiers fateful end

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Key themes

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Misery and more, whether

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Structure?

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-Five line standers represents the repetitive and never-ending nature of war
-broken ABBA rhymes scheme which symbolises that the men are barely holding on

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Context

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Wilfred Owen had experienced in the war himself

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