Exposure Flashcards

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1
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What is the famous refrain in Exposure

A

But nothing happens

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2
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What is the structure of Exposure

A

Same stanzas boring

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3
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What is the first line of exposure

A

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive
us…

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In the second stanza what is the simile about men on wire

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like twitching agonies of men among its brambles

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5
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What are the rhetorics in Exposure

A

What are we doing here?
Is it that we are dying?

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What is the personification of the pale flakes

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Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces

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7
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What is the line before is it that we are dying

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Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses

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8
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What is the line about ghosts

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Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires

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9
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What is the forehead described as

What are the eyes described as

A

puckering foreheads crisp

All their eyes are ice

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