Exposure Quotations

Question 1

How does it first show even nature is against them

Answer 1

The merciless ice east winds that knife us

Question 2

What action verbs are used in the first para

Answer 2

Our brains ache

Question 3

What is repeated throughout the poem

Answer 3

But nothing happens

Question 4

Why is ‘but nothing happens’ repeated

Answer 4

Shows the terror of living day in and day out waiting for death

Question 5

How does Owen show that war is always present even when is not visible

Answer 5

The flickering gunnery rumbles

Question 6

What shows the continuation of war

Answer 6

War lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy

Question 7

How is nature shown as the attacking force in stanza 4

Answer 7

Successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow

Question 8

How does it show they are dazed and fell that they are dieing

Answer 8

We drowse, sun dozed

Is it that we are dying?

Question 9

How is it shown that even in peace there is exhaustion

Answer 9

Slowly our ghosts drag home

Question 10

What does the final ‘but nothing happens’ show

Answer 10

Things can’t be changed now and they only way through this life is death