Exposure Flashcards

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There brains ache in the wind that stab them. First line of poem

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“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us….”

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Repetition throughout the whole play. Ends on this line. Anticlimactic.

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“But nothing happens.”

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Simile. Shows the pain caused by both nature and man

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“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles,”

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Feels like the war is somewhere else. Biblical reference to Jesus as Jesus tells the end of the world. Rumour.

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“Like a dull rumour of some other war”

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Questions the point of War

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“What are we doing here”

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Wilfred Owen

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Experience in the first world war on the frontlines. Exposure was written during world war 1

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About ghosts. Suggest they are no longer complete or alive. The assurance of the ‘O’ sound makes the imaginery journey long and painful.

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“Slowly our ghosts drag home”

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Either Their love for God is dying or that God’s love for them is dying.

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“For love of God seems dying”

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