Exposure

• what was exposure inspired by?

  The brutal experience of world war 1
• Why is exposure more personal than the other poems?

  Wilfred Owen was a soldier and he was killed in the battle.
• where was exposure written?

  In the trenches in 1917 and this creates a salience impression the reader as it is in raw form of the war
• What does salience mean?

  More important or noticeable
• What poem does Exposure contrast?

  Exposure contrasts the charge of the light brigade as it is glamourised the war whilst exposure demonstrates the brutality of the war
• What does herculean mean?

  Massive and Huge
• "dawn massing in the east her melancholy army"
• What does the line "dawn massing in the east of her melancholy army" mean?

  It juxtaposes the traditional view of Mother Nature as nurturing with the brutality violence of an army.
• What does the noun "dawn" show?

  its known for new beginnings however there is no change insight for soldiers, the future is blurred.
• what does the phrase "melancholy army" show?

  the soldiers are inferior to nature
• What does inferior mean?

  lower status or lower ranking
• "less deadly than the air that shudders back with snow"
• What is the technique of "less deadly than the air that shudders back with snow"

  Pathetic fallacy
• What does the quote 'less deadly than the air the shudders black with snow" mean?

  Owen contrasts the battle with weather, that the weather is the most deadly opponent. And that the battle itself is less detrimental than the weather.

  colour imagery of the adjective "black" connotes to finality emphasises the mortal peril of the soldiers.

  The unbearable weakness of the cold makes the unbearable weakness of the war to shine.
• "snow-dazed" to "sun-dozed"
• What does the line "sun-dazed" to "sun-dozed" mean?

  Passage of time and seasons portrays that nothing is really changing even as time goes on. It's like a haunting nightmare. Their suffering transcends their seasons
• "But nothing happens"
• what technique is "but nothing happens?"

  anaphora
• "this first will fasten on this mud and us"
• "we turn back to our dying"