Exposure

Question 1

“Our brains ache”

Answer 1

DOUBLE MEANING!
-brain hurts from the cold
-brain hurt from the psycological effects of war

Question 2

“Merciless ice east winds that knive us”

Answer 2

Personifies that wind is attacking them almost like an enemy

Question 3

Worried by, silence,sentries,whisper,curious,nervous”

Answer 3

Sibilance is used to refelct how anxious they are and that they are waiting for something to happen (get attacked)

Question 4

‘But nothing happens’

Answer 4

Repetition of this phrase gives the readers a sense of boredom caused by waiting and hints at the pointlessness of war

Question 5

‘Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow’

Answer 5

-personification, the nature is presented as more damaging and deadly than the bullets
-‘black’connotes the imagery of death-foreshadowing the soldiers fateful end

Question 6

Key themes

Answer 6

Misery and more, whether

Question 7

Structure?

Answer 7

-Five line standers represents the repetitive and never-ending nature of war
-broken ABBA rhymes scheme which symbolises that the men are barely holding on

Question 8

Context

Answer 8

Wilfred Owen had experienced in the war himself