Exposure

• Exposure vs COTLB
• We turn back to our dying
• Slowly our ghosts drag home
• All their eyes are ice
• Our - collective pronoun
• The innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs
• For love of god seems dying
• Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us …
• Regular 5 line stanzas: monotony of war; real threat is the weather
• First person account- detailed, authentic
• Cyclical structure: focus on war emphasises the continuous cycle of war
• ABBA rhyme scheme with half rhymes: regularity vs disruption to emphasise that although daily life in the trenches was very monotonous, the conditions were still very harsh and unnerving for soldiers
• Last line of each stanza is noticeabley shorter; rhetorical questions or repeated phrases to emphasise the futility of war

  they change slightly to show the disintegration of mindset
• Exposure vs bayonet charge- war
• Kind fires burn
• Sun smiles
• Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army