Exposure Flashcards
“Our brains ache,”
Shared painful experience
“merciless iced east winds that knive us,”
Nature is personify and seems to be attacking them
Ellipses…
Hint that they’re waiting for something to happen and it never does
“Confuse,” “Worried,” “Curious,” “Nervous,”
Overwhelming amount of different emotions
“ like twitching agonies of men among its brambles,”
The brambles of the barbed wire remind us of the pain caused by nature
“But nothing happens,”
Short simple half line emphasises their boredom and tension
“ flickering gunnery rumbles,”
Assonance and onomatopoeia create a vivid aural description
“ like a dull, rumour of some other war,”
Absence of war suggests nature is the main enemy
“What are we doing here?”
Rhetorical question emphasises the futility
“ the poignant misery of dawn begins to grow,”
Shows how pointless and depressing war is
“ dawn massing in the east her melancholy army,”
Dawn is personified using the language of battle normally Dawn brings hope but not here.
“Ranks of shivering ranks,”
The description of Dawn approach where is the soldiers in the trenches. Ranks gives connotations of war
“ sudden successive flights of bullet streak the silence,”
Sibilance mimics the whistling sound of bullets flying and with this being the only line involving war this emphasises the absence of warfare
“Flowing flakes that flock,”
Alliteration emphasises the relentlessness of the snow
“Black with snow,”
Snow is normally white(symbolising purity) but here it’s black (symbolising evil or death)
