Exposure

• Themes of exposure?

  Power of nature, nationalism, life on frontlines
• Best poems for comparison?

  Remains
• Context for the poem?

  Wilfred Owen fought in WWI, died in final week of war, parents received telegram on 11th November
• Structure for the poem?

  8 stanzas, 5 lines. Last lines of stanza short for impact
• "Like twitching agonies of men among it's branches."
• "Silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous."
• "Merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
• Last line?


  "But nothing happens."