Exposure

• Slowly our ghosts drag home ... on us the doors are closed ... we turn back to our dying
• Out brains ache in the merciless iced east wind that that knive us
• Therefore, not loath, we lie out here ; therefore we're born, for the love of God seems dying
• Dawns missing in the east her melancholy attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey
• So we dowse, sun dosed littered with blossoms where the blackbird fussed- is it that we are dying?
• Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore we're born, for love of God seems dying 


  Double meaning of lie- criticism of patriotism

  Metaphor- love is dying, God would not let us go to war and he claimed 'thou shalt not kill'
• Slowly our ghosts drag home ... on us the doors are closed ... we turn back to our dying 


  Paranormal imagery- delusional mind of soldiers, close to death

  Exclusion and rejection- lack of care for mental health, exclusion from families

  Rhetorical question- questioning conflict
• Our brains ache in the merciless ice east winds that knive us

  Irony- nature attacking men- turning against men as form of divine punishment

  Sibilance- sound of wind + slows down pace to show time men were exposed

  Long lines- dragged out death

  Half rhyme- unsettles reader
• Dawn missing in the east her melancholy attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey

  Personification of clouds- more danger from weather than soldiers

  Pathetic fallacy- emotions of men- weather miserable in attempt to expel horror of war from nature

  Repetition + assonance- war continues