Exposure

Question 1

Key quotes

Answer 1

• merciless iced east winds that knive us
• but nothing happens
• dull rumour of some other war
• air that shudders black with snow
• sudden successive flights of bullets
• slowly our ghosts drag home
• for love God seems dying
• half known faces. All their eyes are ice

Question 2

Language and themes

Answer 2

• Soldiers the think that the bullets are mess deadly than the icy cold wind and silence
• God and superstition (God failing them)
• Nature is the enemy and is repeatedly personified

Question 3

About

Answer 3

Soldiers in the trenches in ww1 but they lie awake fearful of enemy and fretful about the silence.
The whether is actually the main enemy with icy winds and snow attacking them from every angle.
The soldiers think of home and believed that they are sacrificing themselves so their families can remain safe back in england.
But nothing happens and they continue to return to think about their deaths.

Question 4

Form and Structure

Answer 4

• The poem has a set rhyme scheme however some lines end in half rhymes and para-rhymes.
• The poem is written in present tense which adds to the immediacy.
• The structure moves us from the present to the future.

Question 5

What poems can you compare about the reality of war,power of nature, loss and absence ?

Answer 5

• Bayonet Charge
• Storm on the island
• The Light Brigade
• London