Exposure Quotes

• “Merciless Iced East Winds that knife us’

  2.Weather is like another war its self + more deadly

  3.Device - Personification on weather purposefully targeting them

  4.Verb ‘ knife’ - so dangerous it could kill
• “Slowly our ghosts drag home

  1. Metaphor - half dead, dehumanising
  2. Verb ’drag’ war lasting long time
  3. Impact - Makes us feel guilty and sorry for soldiers
• ”But nothing happens”

  1. Waiting for death - living in fear
  2. Repetition - giving up on life - psychological torture
  3. Intention - futility of WW1
• Quote that links to weather

  “We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy”
• Quotes that links to weather bullets

  “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”
• Quote that links to trenches

  “Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse sun-dozed”
• “But nothing happens”
• Personification quotes in exposure

  ‘Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army’