Exposure Flashcards
8 verse repetition
Represents emotional rollercoaster
What are the 3 parts of each stanza?
Opening with a blunt powerful sentence
High emotive vocabulary choices
Anti-climax
Give an example of an opening with a blunt powerful sentence
“Our brains ache in the merciless iced East winds that knife us”
Give an example of how emotive they can be very choices used in the middle of a stanza
“Wearied/ drooping /nervous”
Heightens tension
Give an example of an anti-climax
“But nothing happens”
Disappointment
ABBAC
Rhyming then broken rhyme which shows the waiting but also the disappointment
No full rhymes
Reflects on ease of situation
Biblical imagery
“Like a dull rumour of some of the war”
Jesus says that when the world comes to an end you hear of wars and rumours of wars feels like the world is ending
Examples of the personification
“Mad gusts”
“Winds is that knife us”
Metaphor
“ all their eyes are ice”
Sibilance
“ sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
Could be the sound of bullets or could be soldiers shivering
Military imagery
“Attacks once more in ranks”
Reminds the reader constantly of the threat the soldiers are in
Caesura
“Slowly I’ll go straight home glimpsing the surks fire glazed”
Resents division affecting the division caused by war by people at home and soldiers
