exposure
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- Created on: 19-11-19 10:24
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- exposure
- but nothing happens
- to emphasise Owen’s belief that this war is futile
- The phrase is ironic. Though the soldiers feel that nothing is happening in reality they are slowly but surely dying.
- war involves more waiting than fighting. During these periods of inactivity morale drops.
- the soilders are being exposed to the weather
- "merciless iced east winds that knive us"
- additional opponent for the soldiers.
- The personification of the wind suggests that the weather is like a deliberately vicious and inescapable enemy
- The men are faced with double peril; enemy soldiers and the risk of hypothermia from exposure.
- "merciless iced east winds that knive us"
- "what are we doing here? "
- reinforces the feeling of boredom and anxious anticipation of the soldiers.
- rhetorical questions
- give a feeling of incompleteness and unease as it leaves unanswered questions.
- like twitching agonies of men among its brambles
- They cannot escape the war. like brambles are hard to escape
- Use of a simile
- The imagery of men struggling with the ‘brambles’ — a tough, prickly, wild shrub — gives the reader an idea of the conditions and how appalling war is
- but nothing happens
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