EXPOSURE

• exposure is written by wilfred owen
• ‘our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us’

  METAPHOR (our brains ache)

  PRONOUN (our)

  • soldiers are mentally exhausted

  ADJECTIVE (merciless)

  VERB (knive)

  • brutal and attacking wind
  • no sympathy for soldiers
• ‘pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces‘

  PERSONIFICATION OF SNOW (pale flakes)

  • actively seeking to hurt soldiers

  OWENS MESSAGE

  • weather is the more powerful enemy
  • inescapable