Exposure Flashcards
“Merciless _____ east _____ that _____ __”
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“We ____ know ___ _____, rain ______ and clouds ___ ______”
“We only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy”
“______ streak the _______”
“Bullets streak the silence”
“But ________ ________”
“But nothing happens”
“Our _____ ______”
“Our brains ache”
Context
-written in 1917 whilst Owen was fighting in ww1
-war was romanticised and seen as glorious and noble
-Owen was hospitalised for PTSD - he suggests war can kill a man psychologically
-most wars were fought in Europe where the weather was extreme
-winter of 1916-1917 was so cold that many soldiers lost fingers and toes to frostbite
Structure
-cyclical
-anaphora “but nothing happens”
-first 3 stanzas end with ellipses
“flowing ____ that _____”
“flowing flakes that flock”
