Exposure
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 23-05-18 14:27
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- Exposure
- Form
- First person plural
- Present tense
- Monotonous rhyme
- Half-rhyme
- Structure
- Eight stanzas, no progression
- Half-line at end of each stanza
- First and last stanzas end the same way
- Context
- Was in World War II and wrote poems about truth of life on front line for soldiers
- Contradicted glorified image of war
- Quotes
- "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
- "Doors and shutters, all closed: on us the doors are closed"
- "Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn...For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid"
- "But nothing happens"
- "Pale flakes with ********* stealth come feeling for our faces"
- "Sudden successive bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders back with snow"
- "the flickering gunnery rumbles/Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war"
- "What are we doing here?"
- "Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"
- "All their eyes are ice"
- "Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp"
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