Exposure - Wilfred Owen

• written by - Wilfred Owen
• shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed
• Dawn massing in the east, her melancholy army/ attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey
• our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…
• all their eyes are ice
• flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew
• ABBAC Rhyme scheme

  • Nothing changes- links to being rigid like army life
  • Reflects monotonous nature of men’s experience
  • Half rhymes- offers no comfort or satisfaction
• first person plural- to show how experience was shared
• my subject is war, and the pity of war