Exposure

Question 1

Who wrote Exposure

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

Exposure - context

Answer 2

During WW1
Soldiers suffered from exposure

Many believed war was fully of glory, but Willfred Owen ‘exposes’ the truth in this poem

Question 3

Wilfred Owen - context

Answer 3

Poetry written by him expressed his anger at the cruelty of war

Question 4

Exposure - quotes

Answer 4

Merciless iced east wind that knive us → nature is dangerous and cruel, unforgiving, violent

For love of god seems dying → soilders feel abandoned → emphaises lonliness of war

Misery of Dawn → juxtaposition (dawn is normally and beautiful and not feared) → shows how cruel and strange war is

All their eyes are ice → Trauma from the soldiers (no longer show emotion) / the soilders have been killed by the weather

Question 5

Exposure Structure

Answer 5

But nothing happens - repition reinforces the boring nature of war → constant waiting

Pararhyme is used (half rhyme where hard constants rhyme but not vowels) to show the unease of the soldiers (ABBAC)

Question 6

Exposure - Summary

Answer 6

This poem shows the misery WW1 soldiers have to face every night, while waiting in the trenches.

Although nothing is happening and there is no fighting, they face danger from their ‘exposure’ to the weather

Question 7

Exposure - Tones

Answer 7

(steal from edwin)