English Literature: Exposure
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- Exposure
- ...But nothing happens
- repetition of 'but nothing happens' throughout the poem gives the reader a sense of boredom caused by waiting
- it also hints at the pointlessness of war
- Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
- personification
- the weather is personified to make it sound menacing and deadly
- also characterises the weather as the real enemy of the soldiers
- sibilance
- highlights the intensity of the pain and the brutality of the weather
- personification
- Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army / Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey.
- personification
- dawn, usually associated with ideas of light and hope is here hostile and brings even more suffering
- colour imagery
- 'grey' conveys the ideas of despair and boredom
- military vocabulary
- 'ranks is a military term and is repeated, reminding the reader that the weather is the soldiers' enemy
- personification
- Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow
- nature is presented as more damaging and deadly than the bullets
- the contrasting images of of 'black' and 'snow' are unsettling
- they highlight the horror of being exposed to the elements
- they also highlight how close to death the soldiers are
- Slowly, our ghosts drag home
- metaphor
- suggests that war has sucked all of the life out of the soldiers
- reminds the readers the soldiers are on the brink of death
- All their eyes are ice
- metaphor
- describes the extreme effects of the weather that have overcome the soldiers
- implies that the soldiers have lost their humanity and could suggest they are close to breaking point
- effects/reality of conflict
- War Photographer
- Poppies
- Kamikaze
- Bayonet Charge
- Remains
- power of nature vs power of man
- Storm on the Island
- The Prelude
- Tissue
- Wilfred Owen (1918)
- ...But nothing happens
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