Exposure

Question 1

Exposure Form?

Answer 1

first person plural (OUR WE US). collective voice shows how experience was shared by soldiers across war

each stanza has regular rhyme scheme of ABBAC reflecting monotonous nature of the men’s experience but rhymes are half rhymes ,e,g ‘SNOW’ AND RENEW’). the rhymes are jagged like the reality of men’s experience and reflect their confusion and faded energy

Question 2

Exposure structure

Answer 2

last stanza ends with the same words as 1st reflecting monotony of life in trenches and absence of change
‘BUT NOTHING HAPPENS’

Ellipses hint that they’re waiting for something to happen but never does

Question 3

Exposure Questions

Answer 3

The poem uses rhetorical questions to ask why the men are exposed to such dreadful conditions and whether any point to their suffering

‘WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE’

Question 4

Exposure Bleak language

Answer 4

lots of bleak imagery to remind reader men’s pain and awful weather

‘BLACK WITH SNOW’ snow is normally white,pure, but here it’s black symbolising evil or death

‘FLOWING FLAKES THAT FLOCK’ alliteration emphasise relentless snow

Question 5

Exposure Personified

Answer 5

nature repeatedly personified making it seem like real enemy

‘MERCILESS ICED EAST WIND THAT KNIFE US’

Question 6

Exposure Poems to compare

Answer 6

Charge of the light bragde and bayonet charge for reality of way

Storm of the Island for power of nature

London on hoplessness