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Exposure quotes

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  • what are we doing here?
  • merciless east winds that knive us
  • dawn massing in the east
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COLTB quotes

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  • when can their glory fade?
  • half a league half a league half a league onwards!
  • into the valley of death
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P1 intro

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  • innocent young men facing consequences of corrupt decisions out of their control
  • COLTB = glorious
  • exposure = weak and inexperienced
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exposure P1

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  • rhetorical question “what are we doing here”
  • rhetorical question shows they are looking for an answer, yet society as a whole cannot provide an answer as to why they are sent to war.
  • ‘we’ is ironic bcz soldiers are not actually in charge of their own destiny. trained to question themselves before authority.
  • wider contextual point questioning the moral expectations of the british public.
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COLTB P1

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  • rhetorical question “when can their glory fade?”
  • emphasises importance of sacrificing everything in a patriotic manner, despite it being biggest cluster in history soliders are still seen in a positive light
  • fade suggests the soldiers are heading towards an inevitable death, where glory will remain in the afterlife
  • as poet laurette, state was clearly insecure abt public opinion on war
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P2 intro

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  • both display the threat to soldiers
  • coltb uses well known archaic description
  • exposure shows nature to be greatest threat
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P2 COLTB

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  • dactylic diameter “half a league half a league”
  • rhythm runs parallel to that of horse hooves. fast and unstoppable nature reflects how the soldiers are powerless to their inevitable death
  • purpose of this is for Tennyson to save the solider’s humility by saying it was not their fault, but the sheer power of the enemy.
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P2 exposure

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  • personifies nature “merciless east wind that knives us.”
  • alikens the nature to some sort of tyrannical, oppressive leader, showing the soliders to be a slave to their master.
  • quote is beginning of a pararhyme, showing the discomfort, fragmented nature of war
  • contextually, it makes the reader question the need for war, as the suffering of the soldiers is difficult to comprehend.
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P3 Intro

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-prevelant theme of injustice. nature is englufing both sets of characters in both stories

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P3 COLTB

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-repetition “theirs not to make reply….”

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P3 exposure.

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  • personification “dawn massing in the east”
  • contrasts to usual preception of hope with dawn. Instead, soldiers situation is so bleak that even dawn is deadly for them, representing how they are void of hope.
  • dawn is described using a military phrase “massing” alikening nature to a military enemy.