Exposure

Question 1

quote 1

Answer 1

sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence./less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow,

Question 2

quote 2

Answer 2

But nothing happens.

Question 3

quote 3

Answer 3

therefore, not loathed, we lie out here;/therefore were born,/for the love of god seems dying

Question 4

contexts

Answer 4

-soldier who was killed during battle one week before armistice
-wrote poems to express horror of war as opposed to internalising it
-angry about conditions soldiers had to live in to battle

Question 5

structure

Answer 5

-consistent rhyme scheme makes fifth line stand out showing owen’s emotions and monotony of war
-half rhyme makes reader uneasy and anticipation
-cyclical structure -continuous vicious cycle of war
-caesuras separate home and the trenches