EXPOSURE

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Owen was a soldier in WW1
Suffered from shell shock
Wrote anti-war poetry and believed that the war was being glorified
Written about the winter of 1917 – the coldest of the war - many soldiers died of hypothermia

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

8 stanzas – each 5 lines long
Half lines – Punctuation on every half line
Enjambment and caesura

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

Regular rhythm but sometimes Owen adds an extra syllable (gives sense of confusion
Rhyme scheme ABBAC – half-rhyme – creates a sense of discord

Question 4

Quotations

Answer 4

“Our brains ache”
“merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“nothing happens.”
“What are we doing here?”
“Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army”
“the air that shudders black with snow”
“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces—”
“—Is it that we are dying?”
“on us the doors are closed,—”
“All their eyes are ice”

Question 5

KEY THEMES

Answer 5

Nature, fear, war, conflict, suffering