Exposure Flashcards

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Who wrote exposure

A

Wilfred Owen a famous war poet of World War I

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Context of exposure

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Owen served in some of the worst conditions was diagnosed with shellshock and sent to CraigLockhart hospital was shot and killed one week before end of war

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Analysis of title exposure

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Two meanings
exposed to horrific weather
exposing those in power for doing nothing

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Speaker of exposure

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First person narrative of an unnamed soldier

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Tone of exposure

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Hopelessness and despair (emotive language)

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Form of exposure

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Anti-climatic ending of each stanza
repetitive rhyme scheme shows repetitive nature of nothing changing

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Quote Showing that it was a collective experience in poem exposure

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Our brains age in the merciless iced east winds that knife us

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Quote Showing the futility of war in exposure

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But nothing happens

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 Quote Showing many people died in exposure

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The burying party picks and shovels in shaking grasp pause over half known faces

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Themes of exposure 

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Power of nature
effect of conflict
reality of conflict
loss/absence

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