Exposure

• Written by?

  Wilfred Owen
• context

  Focuses on WW1 and waiting over night in the trenches exposed to the elements
• Overall tone

  Dry critical of the government and violence as a whole
• Our brains ache'


  Plural all soldiers are in it together, physical and physiological, dehydrated?
• Merciless iced east winds that knive us'


  Personification shows the cutting through them and their uniforms. Also highlights the power of nature effortlessly defeating them
• We cringe in holes'


  The soldiers are afraid of the nature and hiding in holes likes scared animals or prey being hunted
• Rain soaks, and clouds stormy sags'


  Semantic field of weather and the power of nature the storms amassing for an attack like their enemy