Exposure

Question 1

What is the narrative

Answer 1

The speaker describes the terrifying experience of a night in the trenches in the first world war. The poem shows the trauma experienced by soldiers in the trenches

Question 2

What is the context

Answer 2

Exposure is about what life was like in the trenches during the First World War. By describing the terrible natural conditions under which the soldiers lived and died

Question 3

What is the structure

Answer 3

The poem is structured as a series of eight stanzas. of five lines. The last line of each stanza is noticeably shorter and indented which emphasises its importance

Question 4

What is the form

Answer 4

It is also part of the more general disruption of the rhythmic structure which uses hexameters

Question 5

What are the language techniques

Answer 5

In contrast to the brutalities of the war, the vocabulary Owen uses is sophisticated. The most notable feature of the language is Owen’s skilful use of alliteration and assonance close assonance the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of two or more words