Exposure

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than the air that shudders black with snow. negative as the weather. deadly With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pauso, and renew, Imagery, oxymoron, black as 20 We watch them wandering up and down the wind's Shows death. the weather nonchalance. Alliteration : Soft. Even the snowflakes decide Lack of concern But nothing happens. where to settle. flakes have 'Fingers' which feel for the faces of the men, snow is -Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces - quiteration soft sound, an enemy. We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, deceptive, snow is deadly. snow-dazed, metaphor-mental suffering-reality of war. personification: deadly as the germans + Knife to show danger is close. winds the attaker flashback to their homes. 12 Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. - Is it that we are dying?< emotions he suggests to Cope with. most important. Rhetorical Question : men know they are getting hypothermia" death slow LAnswer to Stanzathey are dying. '2's question. Conditions are so bad they can no longer tell what is normal anymore. their memones take them home Slowly our ghosts drag home glimpsing the senk fires, glozed Fires are 30 With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there; Covered with glassed/flatered but offer For hours the innocent mice rejoice the house is theirs; abandoned by everyone. no warmil Shutters and doors, all closed on us the doors are closed, repetition: emphasises We turn back to our dying. Men feel hopelessness of haungno Hallucinating? sodness abandoned warmth. Caesurae reflect of comfort. Kind fires only burn if they this. go to war. Sun Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; doesn't35 Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. Shine en For God's Invincible spring our love is made afraid? Spring follows winter. anything Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, has God abandoned them? For love of God seems dying. God's love for them is in doubt and Frost will freeze everything their faith in him has dwinded due Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, Effect of the frost. to war. Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp. -Adjective: trauma. ma ke Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are (ce The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, them less than But nothing happens. could be (smaller) Wilfred Owen Caesura, colon: they cannot GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE Dead, they're dying return home POWER AND CONFLICT Short phrase/horrific image: literally, the eyes are frozen Nothing is being by cold. Their eyes can Menare achieved by the no-longer see the horror of war." found. soldiers' sacrifice Repetition: final line emphasises the process doesn't end, the soldiers are frozen in time and hell. (1893-1918) Metaphor: cold and dead but also dead and empty, without Soul. Context • Wilfred wrote about the war from his experiences. (Based on • he suffered shell Shock. a true Story) Soldiers question God The weather is more of a danger than the bullets. spiritually, mentally and physically cold.