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