Poetry-exposure(Owen)

Question 1

What are the three overarching concepts?

Answer 1

• reality of conflict(sf)
• power of nature(sf’
• effects of war(sf)

Question 2

Power of nature plan:(sf)

Answer 2

“Merciless iced winds that knife us”-personification

“Mad gusts tugging on the wire”-personification

“Rain soaks, clouds sag stormy”-sibilance

Question 3

Reality of conflict plan:(sf)

Answer 3

“But nothing happens”-irony+mesodiplosis of “nothing” in refrain)

“Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”-sibilance

-“like twitching agonies of men among its branches”-simile+ anthropomorphism

Question 4

Effects of conflict plan:(sf)

Answer 4

“Love of God seems dying”-emotive,epistrophe of refrain”dying”-antithesis

“Ghosts drag home”-anthropomorphism

“Innocent mice rejoyce”-halucination

Question 5

Structure

Answer 5

First person plural

Regular rhyme scheme(ABBAC) bored like men in trenches

Para rhyme-tension

-cyclical strucutre

“Semantic feild of uneasy”-“curious”“nervous”“kinfe us”

Question 6

Describe the context?

Answer 6

Owen fought in WW1 and was killed 1 week before the end of the war

-Sassoon was a mentor for Owen in in hospital when recovering from shellshock