Exposure

Question 1

how does the Poet Wilfred Owen relate to the poem?

Answer 1

Owen was a first world war solider who hated the enticing poems that told men to join the army and decided to to write his own, in a realistic manor. Many of them were written in a mental hospital

Question 2

How does the title ‘Exposure’ suggest what the poem may be about?

Answer 2

• no cover
• frontlines
• all forces of weather
• before hyperthermia
• trenches

Question 3

Why does Owen use pronouns?

Answer 3

It shows that this experience isn’t just about him or his character it is a reality to all who fight

Question 4

why does Owens use ellipsis?

Answer 4

creates suspense as the character seems to be waiting for it to be over. Death? it shows that the time seems to go very slowly

Question 5

Owen use imagery to…

Answer 5

present the violent nature of war creating horrible imagery.

• “like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.”
• “slowly our ghosts drag home”

Question 6

why does Owen use repetition?

Answer 6

“But nothing happens.” continues the idea that they are waiting for death