Exposure Flashcards
Who wrote exposure
Wilfred Owen a famous war poet of World War I
Context of exposure
Owen served in some of the worst conditions was diagnosed with shellshock and sent to CraigLockhart hospital was shot and killed one week before end of war
Analysis of title exposure
Two meanings
exposed to horrific weather
exposing those in power for doing nothing
Speaker of exposure
First person narrative of an unnamed soldier
Tone of exposure
Hopelessness and despair (emotive language)
Form of exposure
Anti-climatic ending of each stanza
repetitive rhyme scheme shows repetitive nature of nothing changing
Quote Showing that it was a collective experience in poem exposure
Our brains age in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
Quote Showing the futility of war in exposure
But nothing happens
 Quote Showing many people died in exposure
The burying party picks and shovels in shaking grasp pause over half known faces
Themes of exposure 
Power of nature
effect of conflict
reality of conflict
loss/absence
