Exposure Flashcards
Name a quote that present mental suffering in the poem.
“Our brains ache”
“But nothing happens”
“Drooping flares confuse our memories of the salient….”
“Slowly our ghosts drag home”
Name a quote that presents the futility of war.
“What are we doing here”
“is it that we are dying”
“Far of like a dull rumour of some other war.”
Name a quote that presents the brutality of the weather.
“Merciless iced east winds that knive us us…”
“We hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire”
“Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp.”
Name a quote that presents the idea helplessness.
“What are we doing here”
“On us the doors are closed”
Name a quote that presents the soldiers loss of faith in the poem.”
“For gods invincible spring our love is made afraid”
“For gods love seems dying”
Give an example of personification used in the poem.
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”
