Exposure Flashcards
What is the big idea?
About a group of soldiers in the trenches
What is the significance of ‘our brain ache, in the mercies winds that knife us’
The wind is personified as murderers. Their brains ache in the extreme tiredness loneliness and despair.
What is the significance of sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders with snow’.
The sibilance mimics the sound of the bullets streaking through the air. Could also be sharp intakes of breath of men in shok
Less deadly in snow shows the shock of more people dying from the conditions than of war
What is the significance of pause over half known faces
The soldiers don’t know each other or maybe they no longer recognise one another
What is the context if this poem
Owen was a soldier. he witnessed these horrors first hand. this poem is in response to to the cold wi inter
What poems could this link too?
Bayonet Charge -Both us esibalnce to create sound highlighting the violence
COTLB -Both use effective language to highlight the different pains and struggles
