Exposure Flashcards
“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive that knive us…”
media res - in the action
present tense - ongoing
‘our’ -Owen is part of it
the weather an extra enemy for the soldiers
personifies wind
elipses shows how its uneneding
“Exposure”
lack of protection from the elements
means to reveal something - releaving truth of war
caameras use exposure- taking a picture of truth of war
“Sudden Successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
sibilant s - disrupting the silence as they go past - can almost hear them as the reader
“sudden” - juxtaposes slow death from weather
“streak” is visual but “silence” is sound - cannot think straight
“But nothing Happens”
shows belief in futilty of war
commanders dont change - allowe men to die
irony - theyre actual dying
Form and Structure
Cyclical structure - unending misery
powerful first sentence- sets tone of poem
ABBAC - anticlimactic
