Power And Conflict Poetry - Exposure

Question 1

Who wrote Exposure?

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

What is the big idea?

Answer 2

Conflict between man and nature. Nature is more powerful than man at war

Question 3

What is the structure?

Answer 3

Para rhyme shows words which appear to rhyme but don’t creating an unsettled feeling that the soldiers are experiencing
ABBAC

Question 4

merciless iced east winds that knive
us…

Answer 4

Personification - nature is attacking the soldiers

Question 5

silent…
salient…
Silence, sentries

Answer 5

Sibilance captures the noise of the wind

Question 6

What are we doing here?

Answer 6

Rhetorical question highlights the helplessness of the soldiers

Question 7

poignant misery of dawn

Answer 7

Oxymoron

Question 8

melancholy army
Attacks once more

Answer 8

Personification of weather

Question 9

flowing flakes that flock

Answer 9

Alliteration - power

Question 10

But nothing happens

Answer 10

Helplessness of soldiers

Question 11

Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces

Answer 11

Personification - hunting them

Question 12

Is it that we are dying?

Answer 12

Rhetorical question - yes

Question 13

Slowly our ghosts drag home:

Answer 13

Half living

Question 14

Crusted red jewels

Answer 14

Metaphor - their blood for zen in ice representing how valuable their lives are

Question 15

For love of God seems dying

Answer 15

Even God is turning his back on the soldiers

Question 16

All their eyes are ice,

Answer 16

Ice as in cold and dead empty
Metaphor