Exposure Flashcards
1
Q
Name a quote which presents mental suffering
A
‘But nothing happens’
‘Is it that we are dying?’
‘Our brains ache’
‘What are we doing here?’
2
Q
Name a quote which presents the soldiers lack of faith
A
‘For love of God seems dying’
‘Our love is made afraid’
‘His frost will fasten on this mud and us’
3
Q
Name a quote which presents the effect of the weathers brutality on the soldiers
A
‘In the merciless iced east winds that knive us’
‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’
‘Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp’
4
Q
What is the context of the poem?
A
It is told by a soldier during The Phoney War in WW1 where a lot of the war went to a stalemate due to the very harsh weather conditions.
5
Q
Who wrote the poem?
A
Wilfred Owen
