Exposure

Question 1

Who wrote exposure ?

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

What’s exposure about?

Answer 2

Soldiers in the trenches of World War One are wide awake at night , afraid of an enemy attack
Nature is their main enemy
They imagine returning home but feel the doors are closed for them

Question 3

What the form of exposure like?

Answer 3

Written in first person and uses collective pronouns such “our , “we “ to show the experiences were shared across all the soldiers in the war.
Each stanza has a regular ryhme scheme ABBAC, however the ryhme offers no comfort or satisfaction reflecting the soldiers experiences

Question 4

What’s the structure exposure poem like?

Answer 4

Eight stanzas, but there’s no real progresssion.
The first and last stanza finish in the same way “ but nothing happens “. Absence of change

Question 5

What’s repeatedly personified in exposure ?

Answer 5

Nature

Question 6

4 quotations from exposure…

Answer 6

“Mad gusts tugging on a wire”
“Our brains ache, merciless iced east winds that knife us”
Repetition of “but nothing happens “
“ for love of god seems dying “ , feel like god isn’t helping ( religious time period)

Question 7

Why does exposure use the pronouns ‘our’ and ‘we ‘ throughout the poem

Answer 7

To show the experiences where shared across all soldiers in the war