Exposure Flashcards
Merciless iced east winds that knife us
Sibilance
Low dropping flares
Metaphor for the soldiers themselves
Silence sentries whisper curious nervous
Sibilance
Dull rumour
Vocabulary presents fight as unreal
What are we doing here
Rhetorical question
War lasts rain soaks and clouds sag stormy
Tripartite list makes weather potentially more of a threat than war
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
Makes bullets sound soft
Flowing flakes that flock
Alliteration
Winds nonchalance
Personification
Presents wins as detached
Snow dazed
Reflect the soldiers sense of unreality / confusion
Slowly our ghosts drag home
Assonance
Even imagination can’t get them home quickly
All closed on us the doors are closed
Repetitions impossibility of returning home
For love of god seems dying
Soldiers have lost all hope
Except what they see as fate
All their eyes are ice
Metaphor
Loss of emotion in soldiers frozen death like state
