Exposure

• Form of 'Exposure' - Written in present tense using the first person plural. This collective voice shows how the experience was shared by soldiers across the war.

  Each stanza has a regular rhyme scheme (ABBAC) reflecting the monotonous nature of the men's experience, but the rhymes are generally half-rhymes helping to offer no comfort or satisfaction.
• Structure of 'Exposure' - There is no clear progression across the poem, the last stanza ending with the same words as the first, reflecting the repetitive nature of the war, with a lack of change.
• Exposure Context - Wilfred Owen had wrote exposure from the trenches of World War One, not long before he was killed in battle. Many of Owen's poetry reveals his anger at the war and its waste of life along wiht it s horrific conditions.