Exposure Flashcards

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“What are we doing here?”

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  • identity
  • rhetorical question
  • questioning their motivation to fight
  • asking maybe their are expendable
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wearied we keep awake

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  • Identity
  • alliteration making it difficult to say parallels the difficulty of the lives of the soldiers
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“We turn back to dying”

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  • blunt passive statement shows soldiers disillusionment with their cause
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“For love of God seems dying”

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Religious reference implies the lack of religious imposed morality remaining here emphasising the cruelty of it

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“But nothing happens”

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Repetition
Juxtaposes reality because it is action packed chaos

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Sudden successive flights of bullets

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Sibilante and fricativas here creates horrible imagery

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“Pale flakes with fingering stealth comes feeling for our faces”

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Alliteration here gives connotations of coldness and the hardship that they need to fight two wars.

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All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens

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Metaphor
Sense of seeing conquered by nature

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“Probably armed possibly not”

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  • repetition
  • enjambment
  • guilt and regret
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“Sort of inside out, pain itself, the image of agony”

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Colloquial language
Gruesome imagery
Him trying to pretend like he hasn’t been affected by the experience

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“Tosses his guts back into his body, then he’s carted off into the back of a lorry”

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Colloquial language and the rhyme shows that this was just casual things they would do

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“Blood shadow stays on the street”

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Metaphor
Haunted
PTSD

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“Drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”

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Metaphor

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He’s here in my head when I close my eyes

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  • metaphor
    Internal conflict
    Guilt
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“His bloody life in my bloody hands”

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Metaphor
Regrets killing him

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“I blink and he bursts in again”

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Enjambment across stanzas
Separating reality from memory
Lots of plosives are used because they have a violent sound