Exposure Flashcards
Who was exposure written by?
Ted Hughes
Describe the context of exposure
Hint: 👨💣😰
Hint: 📕-> 😰
Hint: 💣-> 👶
- Father fought in WW1 (Gallipoli campaign) and experienced trauma
- Wrote poems to show Dads trauma and the lives that were impacted
- Grew up post war and was a child in WW2
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
What is this an example of?
Personification
“Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent”
What sound does the W make?
Wind
Worried by silence sentries whisper, curious, nervous”
What is the repetitive S sound called?
Siblance
“Like twitching agonies of men amongst its brambles”
What device is used here with the brambles? What imagery does this create?
Metaphor
Screaming men
“Dawn _____ in the east her _____ army. Attacks in ____ on shivering ____ of grey
Fill in the blank
Massing
Melancholy
Ranks
Ranks
What is an oxymoron?
Find an example of this in exposure
Hint: 🖤🌨️
Two things that impossible
Black with snow
“Slowly our ghosts drag home, glimpsing the sink fires, glozed with crusted dark- red jewels, crickets jingle there”
“Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed. We turn back to our dying”
What does this quote saying?
Metaphor of jewels making home desirable
PTSD - feeling they can’t return
Not wanted, ignored
What is an example of repetition throughout the poem?
“But nothing happens”
Describe the rhyme scheme
(ABBCD)
Regular, shows boredom and that nothing happens in war
