exposure- wilfred owen

• "merciless iced east winds that knive us" -personified nature -oppressive dynamic verbs
• "hear the mad gusts tagging on" -extended metaphor of wind"
• "poignant misery of dawn beings to grow" -dawn normally has positive connotations -misery reflect soldiers mental state
• "sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence" -sibillance imitate swift sounds of bullets -sensory language
• "is it that we are dying?" -sympathetic rhetorical question
• "slowly our ghosts drag home" -lexical field of death -shell-shock -modifier= war is tedious/ futile
• "for love of god seems dying" -nihilistic -loss of faith
• "but nothing happens" -sense of stasis -ironic as war is typically dynamic/chaotic
• form and structure: -ellipsis gives sense of waiting/ elongation/ aprehension - anaphora show soliders declining sense of sanity
• themes: -war -violence -power of the mind -nature