Exposure

• Key Message:

  Highlighting the reality of the conditions experienced by soldiers in the trenches. War is not glorious
• Context:

  Owen fought in WWI and had first-hand experience of the trenches. He tragically died one week before the end of the war. Before the war he planned on becoming a priest however in this poem, he seems to have lost his faith in God
• "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us."
• "Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow"
• "For love of God seems dying"