Exposure

• Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence - exposure

  Sibilante shows the sound of the gunfire putting the reader to imagine sensory - weather is more dangerous than bullets
• merciless iced winds that knive us - exposure

  personification no pity, cruel, relentless, weather. coming from the cold. Nature is superior.
• misery of dawn - exposure

  the reality of the war experience. waking up in the morning is worse than dying. suffering another day against nature.
• less deadly - exposure

  shows the bullets are causing less harm than the weather - ironic
• doors are closed - exposure

  the men are quickly forgotten after death- critical of war- they do not care. too many to be significant