Exposure

Question 1

“mercilles iced winds that knive us”

Answer 1

Merciless means never ending so the quotation mean that they are getting attacked non-stop from the freezing wind.

Question 2

“the poignant misery of dawn begins to grow…”

Answer 2

poignant means sad and miserable so the quotations is showing that a miserably day is starting.

Question 3

the structure of the poem

Answer 3

A stanza usually has 3 to 4 limes and on the final line it ends with “but nothing happens” or a rhetorical question.

Question 4

how does the poem rhyme

Answer 4

the poem “Exposure” has a bit of rhyming because Owen is trying to show how trench warfare was actually like.

Question 5

the structure of the poem “Exposure”

Answer 5

1,2,3: nothing happens, its miserably and scary

4: the transition from Winter to Spring
5: digging the graves
6: thinking about home country
7: he dies but the war continues.