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Mind Map by Heather Crosby, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Heather Crosby
almost 9 years ago
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Analysis of Exposure by
Wilfred Owen
- Vocabulary
- merciless - cruel
- poignant - sadness
and strong feelings
- glozed - make
excuses for
- burying party -
those who bury
the dead
- puckering - wrinkled, creased
- salient - area of
France
- brambles -
blackberry bush
- incessantly -
over and over
- gunnery - a place
where guns are
- merciless - cruel
- Interpretations of the poem
- Being exposed to the
extreme weather
conditions is a
different kind of
suffering
- Exposing the
actuality of the
war in the
trenches
- Perhaps Owen
'exposes' himself to
public criticism, he
is now against the
war
- Religion - is war because
we don't love God, or
because God does not
love us?
- God does not care if we die
- God does not care if we die
- The soldiers dream of home
- Juxtaposition of trenches
and images of British
countryside
- They are more likely
to die from the
conditions than the
enemy
- Juxtaposition of trenches
and images of British
countryside
- Being exposed to the
extreme weather
conditions is a
different kind of
suffering
- Poetic techniques
- Assonance -
brains ache
- Ellipsis ... - want us to
ponder on the idea
- Personification -
dawn is a cruel
female
- Alliteration -
flowing flakes that
flock
- Sibilance - streak
the silence
- Half-rhyme - drowse/doze
leaves us dissatisfied reflects
the idea that his idea of war is
not what it should be
- Repetition
- Closed - not letting
them into the
warmth
- Closed - not letting
them into the
warmth
- Rhetorical questions
- 'What are we doing
here?'
- Assonance -
brains ache
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