exposure Flashcards
dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
attacks once more in rank on shivering ranks of grey
personification of the weather
the image of the farther arming itself better than the soldiers that the soldiers attacking
the word “massing’ suggest threat there is much more of a threat from the weather than the German soldiers
pathetic fallacy wither ois melancholy reflect the emotion of the meningitis the trenches
on a deeper level it is saying that nature itself do not want to attack the soldiers but reluctantly it has to do it to expel the hours of war a restore nature
the repetition of ranks and the assonants of the a song suggest the natures attack goes on and on and the soldiers can do nothing about it
pathetic fallacy with the clouds shivering reflecting the soldiers shivering on the ground
our brains ache as the merciless iced east wind knife us …
wearied we keep a awake as the night is silent…
completely changes
our view point of war as we expect the enemy to be the danger where as it is the weather that knives them
they is terrible irony as nature itself is attacking the men
this could be interpreted as nature turning its back on the barbaric nature of men attacking them as if nature is part of some Devine punish meant ( utterly mercilessly )
also convinces this with the repeated assonance I this slows down the rhythm of the line and shows the exposure the writer is feeling out there in the merciless wind for a long period of time
he does this with the ;length of the line 12 -13 instead of 10 and under silibils sohow the long excrutiating suffering and eventual death. with the alipsis
also sugest that war turn view upsidown as the have to keep awake on the a silent night
shows his tiredness when he uses an alteration with the ws which again draw out the line shows how long it takes for the night to parse
so we drowse sun-dozed litterswith blossoms where the black bird fusses -is it that we are dying ?
Owen gives us images on how we escape from this they escape in there minds
the blossoms are white and this could be the snow as he is amgening the sow to be blossom wishing for spring
even in his memory of spring it still irritates him as the wind in the cloud are doing now
blossom is also associated with warmth and beauty buy using the adjective litter could suggest an abundances of them but also have the conversations of rubbish
with the use of the sibilance makes it seductive which is ironic as the wether is seducing hime in order to kill him this is the enemy attic that he must avoid
this is. one of the reason why he asks the final question as this he can tell his brain is not functioning as if he is dying they is a allusion to brain damage
also he is realising maybe his brain knows he is dying so he is thenking happy memories as they are his last
therefore, not loathe lie out here ;therefore were born for love of god seem dying
on the first reading this suggest this is a justification of them fighting in this war that it is worth the sacrifice
in a deeper meaning there are 2 meaning for the word lie as if we are lying to ourselves to die for ones country as it is not a worthwhile sacrifice
also the the last metaphor it suggest that our love and love for god is dying because if there was more love there would not be a war and god is nt on there side because he would disapprove of this as he states do not kill
attack on Wilfred Owen faith
pause over half-known faces.all there eyes are ice, but nothing happens
literal death is convade in there half known faces of the men they are burying
half known suggest that they have died quickly other they weren’t in the front line for that long or the soldier deliberately didn’t get to know one another to not damage there psych
ideas is also being pick up by the metaphor there eyes are ice either they are latterly did with there ice open or frozen or the burial parties are like ice as they are unfeeling as war has made them numb to grief
the homophone eyes suggest that there identity have turned to ice there personalities etc completely unable to feel
with the last lone you could infer how he is saying it is better to dye in war instead of their insistent cold
another meaning he would want something political to happen wants peace
could be a call for a release of war through death death is preferred to this ongoing suffering
structure
half rhyme unsettle the reader
reflect the poets intention as he want a need rounded ending but he does not instead nothing happens
soldier under attack
nature developing that attack with rank upon rank
soldier try to escape that attack by escaping through there memories
by doing this discover the reasons of war were wrong
there selves have been destroyed
