English: Exposure key points
- Created by: Beswick26
- Created on: 21-02-16 11:53
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- Exposure
- Repetition
- 'But nothing happens'
- Shows how even death of soldiers doesn't really change anything
- Creates a slow, sleepy effect - semi-conscious confusion
- 'But nothing happens'
- Nature
- Personified as the enemy
- In war, everything is a threat
- 'flowing flakes that flock'
- Snow is seen as an army
- 'all their eyes are ice'
- Eyes are windows the soul, their souls are cold and void of emotion
- The cold has penetrated all the way to their souls
- Eyes are windows the soul, their souls are cold and void of emotion
- Personified as the enemy
- Ideas about war
- Insignificance of the soldiers
- Shows how even death of soldiers doesn't really change anything
- Insignificance of the soldiers
- Sound
- Sibilance
- Image of bullets flying through the air
- 'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence'
- Image of bullets flying through the air
- Sibilance
- Form
- Cesurae used
- Lines quietly dying away as the poet dies, or they are being carried away by the 'merciless winds'
- Blend one thought into the next, the wandering mind of the dying soldier as his 'brain aches'
- Written in 1st person plural
- Includes the reader in the experience and makes them feel as if they are suffering with the persona
- Cesurae used
- Repetition
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