Exposure Quotes Flashcards
The weather is presented as more menacing than bullets. Contrasting images of black and snow are unsettling. They highlight the horrors of being exposed to the elements.
“Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”
Metaphor. Describes the extreme effects of the weather that have overcome the soldiers.
“All their eyes are ice”
Personification. Emphasises that nature is hostile and brings suffering.
“Dawn massing in the East her melancholy army.”
Personification. Makes the weather seem deadly and menacing, and characterises the weather as the real enemy of the soldiers.
“Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
Repetition. Gives the readers a sense of the boredom caused by waiting and hints at the pointlessness of war.
“But nothing happens…”
Metaphor. Suggests that war has sucked all the life out of the soldiers.
“Slowly,our ghosts drag home”
