Exposure

Question 1

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us.”

Answer 1

Our gives a sense of collective pain and shared suffering. Brains ache is a metaphor used to show trauma from was and mental exhuastion. Violent imagery. Weather is a weapon.

Question 2

“we hear mad gusts tugging on the wire.”

Answer 2

Mad has connotations of mental or insane , adding a sense of chaos or unease. Auditory imagery helps the reader to feel the atmosphere and shows how sensetive the soldiers are.

Question 3

“The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow.”

Answer 3

Dawn is meant to be a new fresh beginning, yet it is not here just more pain showing a cyclical structure of endless suffering.

Question 4

Quotes

Answer 4

“The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow.”
“We hear mad gusts tugging on the wire.”
“Our brains ache in the merciless east iced winds that knive use.”

Question 5

Structure

Answer 5

Warm and cold imagery.
Pararhymes barely holding the poem together. E.g glozed and closed.

Question 6

Main message

Answer 6

Showing the futility of war.