Exposure

• Exposure


  a polysemic, exposed to multiple enemys and exposing the truth
• our brains ache


  in action, shell shock4
• merciless iced east wind that knive us


  unforgiving

  metaphor, physical suffering at the hands of nature
• worried by silence, sentries whispers, curious, nervous


  war feeding on fear

  repeated s sound - wind or bullets
• but nothing happens


  war is futile

  metaphor for the wider world, they stand by idly
• watching we hear mad gusts tugging on the wire

  synesthisa, mixing up the two senses

  defensless
• like twitching men among its brambles


  can not escape suffering or the wind

  religious links to jesus crown of thornes
• a dull romour of some other war


  mathew 24:6 links to questioning belieffes

  not always action packed but always on the horizons
• what are we doing here

  feels tricked
• we only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy


  juxtopeses something normal with something horrific
• in the east her melancholy army attacks once more

  under relentless attack
• shivering ranks of grey

  the germans wore grey
• suddens succsessive flights of bullets streak the silence

  sounds of gunshots / wind
• less deadly than air that shuders black with snow

  nature is the true enemy
• flowing flakes that flock

  contrsts to the soft s sound
• the winds nonchalance


  the wind is not affraid of the bullets
• pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces -


  begins the shift to the positive shift / dream
• into grassier ditches


  idea of grass is greener on the other side
• forgotten dreams


  dreaming but living a nightmare
• drowse, sun-dozed


  hilluciagenic state of hypothermia
• -is it that we are dying

  the end of the dream
• slowly our ghosts drag home:

  even after death their suffering is pronolunged

  ceasure reflects the shift from reality to dreames
• for hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs


  its empty as soilders are away
• on us the doors are clossed


  their is no escape and their life is over
• we turn back to our dying


  expect / waiting for their dying
• believe no therwise


  double negative
• for gods invincible spring our love is made afraid

  critiscising religion, losing faith after all there ssuffering
• for love of god seems dying


  praying for forgivness on deaths door
• tonight frost will fasten on this mud and us


  death is inevitable
• shrivverlling many hands


  nature deforming them
• pause over half known faces

  furthilling last duty by showing respect

  they were disfigured to the point they were unrecognisable
• all their eyes are ice


  cold dead eyes - nature one

  mathew 15:14 'if a blind man leads a blind man both will fall into a pit' government oblivious leading more and more to their death
• but nothing happens


  pointless - futility of war

  we repeat our mistakes
• cyclical structure


  suffering inevitable and inescapable
• key themes


  • indescribability of war
  • inevatability of death
  • power of nature
  • suffering
  • conflict
• comparison poems


  • bayonet charge
  • extract from the prelude
  • kamikaze
  • remains
  • storm on the island
  • war pomes