Power Of Nature First Hand Perspective- Exposure Flashcards
Significance of tital
Exposure - conotes a vulnerable feeling
Method in first line
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…” - personification of nature like it’s deleberately out to get them
Key aspects of form and structure
Every stanza is 5 lines long. End of every stanza it shows emotions or what is hapening. First person - unaware if ending. Cyclical structure “but nothing happens”
Tenses used in Exposure
Present tense onto future - how soldiers are scared for there own futures
Uses of personification used
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”- nature personified as a general in the army. “Winds noncholance” - cannot be botheres
Stanza 5 till stanza 6 - what happens
The feelimg that the soldiers are dying :
“Is it that we are dying” “we turn back to our dying”
Alliteration
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces” - power of nature