Exposure

Question 1

Langauge

Answer 1

Personification of nature/the weather

= makes it seem more threatening than the human enemy

Question 2

Evidence for langauge

Answer 2

‘Mad gusts tugging on the wire’

‘The winds nonchalence’

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

Eight stances a fairly long poem to mimic how long time seems to stretch out for them in the bordem of the trenches

Repitition of ‘but nothing happens’- metaphor for lack of progress in the war -they seem annoyed about this

Question 4

Structure

Answer 4

Stanza 1-7:past tense
Stanza 8: future tense
=they seem annoyed about this

Question 5

Point of poem

Answer 5

The poem defies the convection of war and looks at the weather assualting the soldiers, not another army