exposure

• " twitching agonies of men among its branches"

  • use nature imagery to shows the power of nature
• " we turn back to our dying"

  • once they die they will find peace
  • death is the only way out
  • questioning the futility of war
• "merciless iced east winds that knife us"

  • personification of the weather
  • lainching its attack
• elipses in stanza 1 emphasises the waiting
• "but nothing happens"

  • repition
  • shows cyclacality of war
• semantic feild of sleep/ lack of conciousness
• " all their eyes are ice"

  • metaphor
  • they are bascically dead not just arent physically dead yet
  • emotionless
  • souless