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

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