exposure

• exposure:

  ”but nothing happens” x4

  ~ repetition .

  ~almost like the whole thing is pointless.

  ~last quote in poem: all of that for nothing?

  ~ went through all the suffer and freighting danger for nothing.
• exposure:

  ”in the merciless iced winds that knife us…”


  ~personification.

  ~ weather is attacking them with intent.

  ~ weather is possibly worse than the actually war itself.

  ~no remorse for soldiers.
• exposure:

  ”pause over half-known faces, all their eyes are ice”

  ~metaphor.

  ~ambiguous: are they rotting? destroyed? is it literal?

  OR

  : could be the loneliness of war, he isn’t 100% with

  some people.

  OR

  : from cleaning up the battle fields, realisation of

  knowing people.

  ~sense of scariness.
• exposure:

  ”dawn missing in the east of her melanoly army”

  ~personification.

  ~ ’her’ referring to mother nature, she is punishing the innocent even though they have done nothing wrong .

  ~ overall real battle is nature, despite actual war.