Exposure Flashcards
1
Q
What is the context of Wilfred Owens Exposure?
A
- Owen was a soldier and officer in WW1
- Wrote a number of poems about the horrors in the front line
- Died before the end of the war
- Poems ofter angry soldiers in muddy dangerous conditions and generals behind the lines living in comfort
- Tried to show the truth of conditions of people back home
2
Q
“our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”
A
- personification of weather
- “merciless” and attacking “knife us” unexpected as we expect fight between soldiers
3
Q
“but nothing happens”
A
- repeated throughout poem - emphasis pointless waiting for nothing
- frozen in time and hell - process doesn’t end
4
Q
“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”
A
- animalised - like scared rabbits
- before nature, man is just an animal
5
Q
“we turn back to our dying”
A
- keep turning back to their tortue
- casual tone - suggesting numbness
- suggests duty to suffer and sacrafice
6
Q
“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
A
- harsh assonance and consonance of s and t sounds links weather and gunfire - conflict and pain
