Exposure x COLTB

Question 1

Exposure quotes

Answer 1

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

Question 2

COLTB quotes

Answer 2

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

Question 3

P1 intro

Answer 3

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

Question 4

exposure P1

Answer 4

• 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.

Question 5

COLTB P1

Answer 5

• 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

Question 6

P2 intro

Answer 6

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

Question 7

P2 COLTB

Answer 7

• 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.

Question 8

P2 exposure

Answer 8

• 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.

Question 9

P3 Intro

Answer 9

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

Question 10

P3 COLTB

Answer 10

-repetition “theirs not to make reply….”

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Question 11

P3 exposure.

Answer 11

• 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.