Exposure

• Battle facing “merciless iced wins“ nature is personified as attacking the soldiers
• “Brains ache“-mental trauma
• “What are we doing here?“-wondering if there’s any value in his suffering
• “But nothing happens”-repeated three times-monotony of war
• About life in the trenches during World War I
• Cyclical structure the last line of the first and last stanza is “but nothing happens“
• The chaotic structure mirror of the chaos of war
• Half rhyme