Exposure

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  • Created on: 10-04-21 12:59
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  • Exposure
    • Form
      • Poem is written in present tense
        • Use 'our', 'we', 'us'
          • Collective shows how all were affected
      • Each stanza has a regular rhyme scheme ABBAC
      • The rhymes are jagged
        • Reality of the men's experience and relict their confustionand fading energy
    • Wilfred Owen
    • Questions
      • Rhetorical Questions
        • asks why the men are exposed to dreadful conditions
    • Bleak language
      • Bleak imagery to remind the reader of the men's pain, awful weather and the lack of hope
        • descriptions are vivid and distressing
      • Nature is personified making it seem like the enemy of war
    • Feelings and attitudes
      • Suffering
        • physical pain
          • as well as exhaustion and fatigue
      • Boredom
        • Sense of frustration
          • they are 'worried', 'watching'
      • Hopelessness
        • soldiers are helpless against the power of nature
  • Poem is written in present tense
    • Use 'our', 'we', 'us'
      • Collective shows how all were affected
  • Each stanza ends with a half line
    • no hope and lack of activity
    • Form
      • Each stanza has a regular rhyme scheme ABBAC
      • The rhymes are jagged
        • Reality of the men's experience and relict their confustionand fading energy
  • Structure
    • 8 stanzas
      • bleak imagery
    • Exposure
      • Wilfred Owen
      • Questions
        • Rhetorical Questions
          • asks why the men are exposed to dreadful conditions
      • Bleak language
        • Bleak imagery to remind the reader of the men's pain, awful weather and the lack of hope
          • descriptions are vivid and distressing
        • Nature is personified making it seem like the enemy of war
      • Feelings and attitudes
        • Suffering
          • physical pain
            • as well as exhaustion and fatigue
        • Boredom
          • Sense of frustration
            • they are 'worried', 'watching'
        • Hopelessness
          • soldiers are helpless against the power of nature

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