Exposure Flashcards
1
Q
“Our brains ache”
A
Collective voice - shows it’s a shared experience
2
Q
“Iced east winds that knife us”
A
Personification - nature seems to be attacking them
3
Q
“Black with snow”
A
Oxymoron - black represents death - white purity - shows how the real enemy is the weather
4
Q
Personification
A
Nature is repeatedly personified - shows it’s the real enemy in the war
5
Q
Rhetoric questions
A
Poet uses rhetoric language - why they exposed to extreme conditions - is there any point to there suffering - “for love of god is dying”
6
Q
Feelings/attitudes
A
Hopelessness- there helpless against the power of nature & nothing they can do
Boredom - uses repetition to show - “but nothing happens” - there left to contemplate with their own deaths
