Exposure

• Poem starts of with "our brains ache "?


  Shows the psychological factors of war
• Context

  Died in WW1

  Anti-War
• Where can we see anaphora?

  But nothing happens- emphasises the futility of war . The situation remains the same despite their suffering so nothing is achieved
• Title - Exposure

  Shows that they are vunerable
• Far off like a dull rumour of some other war?

  Biblical reference to matthew 24:6 ( And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars -KJV)

  This refers to the end times and so, Owen feels as if the world is ending
• Sudden Successive flights?


  Use of sibilance are used to creative a horrific image
• Where is nature personified to be evil?

  Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
• For the love of God seems to be dying?


  Implies there's a lack of religious imposed morality remaining in the situation