exposure - Wilfred Owen

Question 1

what is exposure about

Answer 1

describes Wilfred owens ww1 experience in trench warfare

Question 2

how does Owen structure the poem

Answer 2

increases tension in each stanza by opening with a blunt and powerful sentence then uses emotive language to describe the feelings of the soldiers then repetitively ends the stanza by decreasing tension

Question 3

why does own write the poem

Answer 3

to explain the futile and pointless nature of war. and the fact that sometimes it isn’t humans that kill us but nature is more dangerous

Question 4

give some examples of ones three piece structure

Answer 4

our brains ache, in the merciless iced winds.
worried, confuse, nervous
but nothing happens

Question 5

how does own highlight the dangers of nature

Answer 5

uses personification such as
“winds that knife us”
“air that shudders”

Question 6

how does Owen present the irony that nature is less deadly

Answer 6

“flights of bullets streak the silence. less deadly than the air that shudders”

Question 7

how does Owen show that the war is no longer dangerous

Answer 7

“like a dull rumour of some other war”

Question 8

how does Owen show the waiting of war

Answer 8

“slowly our ghosts drag home”
“we only know war lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stoy”

Question 9

what quotes show the conditions of war

Answer 9

“we cringe in holes”
“for love of god seems dying.”