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exposure (powerlessness ("the flickering gunnery rumbles, far off,…
exposure
powerlessness
"the flickering gunnery rumbles, far off, like a dull rumour of some other war"
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lack of comradeship, discipline and teamwork shown in the charge of the light brigade
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inactive
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would prefer a mad charge, to meet fate and die nobly instead of wasting away
a lot of men wouldn't have died heroically, so much death from wounds, cold, trapped in the passivity
all men suffer from the weather, unlike bullets
Wilfred Owen
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long way into the war at this point
had been in the trenches for a long time
sense of exhaustion
numbness
present tense, continuously happening,
"we", everyone suffered in the same way
constant stress, always close to where friends had died
exposed to the weather
could be bombed if the right angle was used
juxtaposition
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should symbolise hope, absence of it exemplified
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snow is in control
"flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew...wandering up and down the wind's nonchalance"
gentle fricative, delicacy
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hopelessness
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sentiments may sound noble, but are lost in warfare
double meaning, God has abandoned them, they're losing their beliefs in God
nature
personified, attacking, not the Germans, the act of war creates this brutality in nature itself
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grey
"war lasts, rains soaks and clouds sag stormy"
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dreaming of death
"back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow dazed, Deep into grassier ditches"
"our ghosts drag home"