Exposure Flashcards

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“merciless iced east winds that knive us”

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.Personification of the wind
.Emphasises the brutality

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“But nothing happens”

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.refrain
.mimics the cyclical nature of life in the trenches.
.Contrasts Jessie Pope’s portrayal of war

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“like a dull rumour of some other war”

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.Contrasts Jessie Pope’s portrayal of war
.ties in with “but nothing happens”

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“Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey”

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.Grey is the colour of German Soldier Uniforms
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“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”

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.sibilance mimics the sound of the wind

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“Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

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.the weather is the most deadly thing there
.links to title of poem

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Exposure

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.polysemic
.literal exposure to elements
.exposing the truth of war
.Owen’s response to Jessie Pope

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“Slowly our ghosts drag home”

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.they might as well be dead if they are already ghosts
.Our is a collective pronoun which de-invidualises them.

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“on us the doors are closed, - We turn back to our dying”

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.shows they have no other option but to remain in the trenches
.they have no other fate but to die in war
.’us’ and ‘we’ are collective pronouns

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“For love of God seems dying”

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.The soldiers have lost their faith in God due to the horror they experience

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