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1 5 Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) Exposure by WWI collective Collective Pronoun 25 GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Exposure Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive US ... focuses Soldiers trenches. Although happening hey are danger because all the soldiers all affected. are we here to die? Si bilance The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow ... We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy. Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army 15 Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, But nothing happens. -> repitition. -> violent, personification. -> constrase Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ->ellipsis suggests more is Low, drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient... coming- not stopped. Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, -> rule of 3. But nothing happens. -> end. harsh - Stuck on the wire? simile Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles. -> barbed wire? Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles, -> constant conflict, always 10 Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war ->Simile the background. What are we doing here? ->rhetorical question. - go home? misery felt waiting overnight nothing (S extreme cold, Still exposed aggressive. Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. -> Sibilance, alliteration warfare. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow ->weather is more deadly. With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew, 20 We watch them wandering...
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up and down the wind's nonchalance. ->Personification. But nothing happens. ↓ Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed, ->dreams -> rule of 3. feeling of Sadness depr -> Pathetic fallacy- weather? Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed, Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. - Is it that we are dying? J > alliteration. ->Personification -> deadly conditions, -> rhetorical question. are gone. -> Spring is here. time is moving forward but Hey aren't. on. Lansuers the question on line 11. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 33 the soldiers have came home. - -> old term for grazed. Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed 30 With crusted dark-red jewels, crickets jingle there; For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs; Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, - -> no family - forgotten. We turn back to our dying. ->closed off. > blood wounded. -> nature pleased Hey're leaving. dead. ->Verb-slow Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; 35 Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born, -> Born to For love of God seems dying. * 8 Stanzas 4 WWI * Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us, old, wrinkley. 40 Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp. Lots of repitition, lots of things happen waiting to anti-war, Owen tried to conflict 4 ♥ main The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp, Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, ->metaphor - reveals the conditions of But nothing happens. ↓ . Sibilance - warmth & happieness. -> repitition of Crod. soldiers have lost Paituse in bad but nothing happens more to come? Soldiers die. ->Passive cycle, expose between die. Crod. .الله realities of war, the soldiers and the weather.