poems-exposure

Question 1

Title- ‘Exposure’

Answer 1

Could refer to the weather that the soldiers are exposed to or the harsh aspects of conflict.

Question 2

'’our brains ache,’’

Answer 2

Use of assonance, emphasizes the sharp A sound to indicate physical. ‘our’ shows the struggle of many.

Question 3

Boredom

Answer 3

Presented as the real enemy.
Each new day brings nothing but misery

Question 4

'’Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

Answer 4

Nature is presented as more damaging and deadly than the bullets.

Question 5

Dawn

Answer 5

Dawn is personified:
“Dawn amassing in the East her melancholy army’’

Question 6

Colour

Answer 6

Colour ‘Grey’ has connotations with despair and boredom

Question 7

Bleak imagery

Answer 7

'’War lasts, rain soaks and clouds sag stormy”

Question 8

Bleak imagery

Answer 8

'’The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow’’

Question 9

Repetition

Answer 9

'’But nothing happens” throughout the poem gives the readers a sense of the boredom caused by waiting.

Question 10

Rhetorical questions

Answer 10

Suggests the pointlessness of war:
‘‘What are we doing here?”
“Is it that we are dying?”