Exposure

• What metaphor describes the extreme effect of the weather on the soldiers and their personalities?

  'all their eyes are ice'
• What metaphor shows that war has sucked the life from the soldiers, leaving them empty shells of their former selves?

  'slowly, our ghosts drag home'
• What quote uses juxtaposition to contrast something normally associated with purity and childhood with the grim horrors of war?

  'less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow'
• What quote explicitly states that the weather, rather than the enemy soldiers, is now likely to kill the group?

  'less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow'
• What refrain is repeated throughout the poem?

  'but nothing happens'
• What quote implies the boredom of the soldiers and the pointlessness of war?

  'but nothing happens'
• What quote uses personification of the weather to display it's danger to the soldiers?

  'our brains ache, in the merciless iced winds that knive us'
• What quote uses sibilance to convey the terror the soldiers feel due to the weather?

  'our brains ache, in the merciless iced winds that knife us'
• What quote personifies a normally light and beautiful part of the weather as something which can attack the soldiers?

  'dawn massing in the east her melancholy army'
• What quote uses personification and military vocabulary to show how the weather is the soldiers true enemy?

  'attacks once more in ranks of shivering grey'
• What poem and quote can you link to 'iced winds that knive us'?

  Ozymandias - 'shattered visage'

  Both show the violent physical effect of the wether and it's power over man
• What poem and quote can you link to 'but nothing happens'?

  Ozymandias - 'nothing beside remains'

  'Nothing' can indicate the empty feeling left by the weather and the destruction it can wreak. Ozymandias shows how it is so powerful it can destroy manmade structures and Exposure highlights how it can destroy men themselves.