Exposure - Wilfred Owen

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GCSE English (Poetry) Mindmap am Exposure - Wilfred Owen, erstellt von Samira Choudhury am 03/05/2017.
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Exposure - Wilfred Owen
  1. 'But nothing happens' - Repetition, paranoid, left waiting
    1. 'Incessantly' - Adverb, constant, without stopping
      1. Long poem - Long wait for soldiers
        1. 'East winds that knive us' - Personification, sharp coldness
          1. Realities of war
            1. 'We' - Pronoun, personal, happening to them, unity
              1. 'Silent' - Adjective, dead, dying
                1. 'Our ghosts dragged home' - Noun, spirit/soul left them, heart at home, given up
                  1. 'Worried by silence' - Adjective, should be good thing, waiting for death, are they coming?
                    1. Based on WW1
                      1. 'Our brains ache' - Cold, memories
                        1. 'Merciless' - Adjective, uncaring, emotionless
                          1. 1917 - Coldest winter in living memory
                            1. 'Sentries whisper, curious, nervous' - Noun, adjectives, confusion, why's nothing happening?
                              1. Soldiers waiting overnight
                                1. Owen was in army, personal experience
                                  1. 'Wearied' - Verb, weak, tired
                                    1. Discharged from army suffering from shell shock
                                      1. 'Some other war' - So far off, not near them, long wait
                                        1. 'Misery of dawn' - Oxymoron, noun, 'Dawn' should be positive, hope
                                          1. 'Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey' - Attacked before, cold, strong army
                                            1. 'War lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy' - Sibilance, facing reality
                                              1. 'Mad gusts tugging on the wire' - Personification, angry weather, deadly, strong
                                                1. 'Flowing flakes that flock' - Fricative alliteration, noun, softness of snow, lightness of mind
                                                  1. 'What are we doing here?' - Rhetorical question, pointless, futile, why are they waiting?
                                                    1. 'Is it that we are dying?' - Rhetorical question, hit them, uncertain, confused, realisation
                                                      1. 'Nonchalance' Noun, don't care, bored
                                                        1. 'Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army' - Personification, nature is real battle, sad
                                                          1. 'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence' - Sibilance, sound of bullets flying through air, breaks silence, hope, should be dread
                                                            1. 'Closed' - Adjective, don't fit in, disconnected, changed, locked out, can't go back
                                                              1. 'Snow-dazed' 'Sun-dozed'- Contrast, retreating back to memories
                                                                1. 'Crusted dark-red jewels' - Noun, frozen blood, precious to survival
                                                                  1. 'Love of God seems dying' - Noun, given up on faith/religion/beliefs, why am I suffering?, why did God let this happen?
                                                                    1. 'Tonight' - Noun, past tense
                                                                      1. 'Half-known faces' - Unrecognisable, look different, didn't really know eachother
                                                                        1. 'Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp' - Dead people, frozen, dying
                                                                          1. 'All their eyes ice' - Metaphor, lifeless, dead, fear, emotionless
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