Exposure Flashcards

Wilfred Owen

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‘Our brains ache…’

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‘Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’

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‘Wearied we keep awake…’

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‘Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent’

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‘Worried by silence…’

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‘Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens.’

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‘The poignant misery…’

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‘The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow’

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‘Sudden successive flights…’

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‘Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence’

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‘Pale flakes with fingering…’

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‘Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces…Is it that we are dying?’

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‘The burying party…’

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‘The burying party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice,
But nothing happens.’

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‘Slowly our ghosts…’

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‘Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires’

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‘Northward, incessantly…’

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‘Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rambles, Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here?’

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‘Tonight, this frost will…’

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‘Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us,
Shrivelling many hands, and puckering foreheads crisp’

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