poems exposure

Question 1

overview

Answer 1

There is conflict between soldiers and being told what to do and the insufficient support
the government is the failure

Question 2

structure

Answer 2

The poem is made of eight stanzas with a consistent use of a half line to end. This reinforces the sense
of stasis or sameness throughout the poem that nothing is happening.

Question 3

wilfred owen

Answer 3

Wilfred Owen was a soldier and officers in World War 1. He died before the end of the war
but during his time he saw the full horror of conditions on the front line. He wrote a number
of poems about this, published after the war with the help from fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Question 4

quote that shows rhetorical question

Answer 4

“what are we doing here?”
“is it that we are dying”
highlights hopelessness and confusion because they can not tell what is what

Question 5

quote that shows sibilance

Answer 5

“worried by silence, sentries whisper”

capture voice of wind

Question 6

quote that shows alteration

Answer 6

“with sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew”

empathizes f sounds and highlights the cold

Question 7

quote that shows repetition

Answer 7

“but nothing happens”

shows that nothing is going to happen and they are dying of coldness

Question 8

quote that shows metaphor

Answer 8

“with crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there;”

frozen blood described as jew and sees man as valuable and is being wasted