Exposure - context
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- Created on: 22-05-18 17:33
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- Exposure
- Winter
- 1917 was said to be the coldest winter in living memory
- Owen and his fellow soldiers were forced to lie outside in freezing conditions for days
- Soldiers suffered from hypothermia, frostbite and even trench foot
- Propaganda and Negativity
- His poetry was revolutionary as it portrayed war negatively
- His poems contradicted the scenes of glory portrayed in the British press
- Owen said, 'my theme is war and the pity of war'
- He viewed war as senseless
- He was keen to make the public aware of the dreadful horrors of war
- Style
- 'our brains ache' - Ode to the Nightingale by John Keats
- He was a fan of John Keats
- Owen's style was lots of para-rhymes, alliteration and assonance
- Experiences of War
- He was awarded a Military Cross for his bravery
- Owen was in the British army in WW1
- He was persuaded to return to the front
- Owen was hospitalised for shell-shock (PTSD)
- While in hospital, he was persuaded by Sassoon that the government was deliberately prolonging the war
- Winter
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