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Exposure - Wilfred Owen - Coggle Diagram
Exposure - Wilfred Owen
Alliteration/Sibalance
"Silence, sentries"
"Clouds sag stormy"
Depressing
"Stare, snow"
"We watch them wandering"
Rhetorical Questions
"What are we doing here?"
"Is it that we are dying?"
Perspective
"Our brains ache"
Owen portrays the conditions from the soldier's perspective
"For love of God seems dying""
Love of God is disappearing
God's love is dying
Personification
"Merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
"Dawn begins to grow"
"Fingering stealth come feeling for our faces"
"Kind fires burn"
Imagery/Vivid Descriptions/Visions
"Glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed"
Visions of envy, comfortable life at home
"Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp"
Imagery of what exposure to the cold does to their body
"All their eyes are ice"
Vivid description of how they have been overpowered by nature.
It hints that living men can no longer feel emotion
Other Language Techniques
Similes
"Like twitching agonies"
"Like a dull rumour of some other war"
Verbs
"massing"
"flock, pause, and renew"
Triples
Expanded Descriptions
"Salient"
Land from that extends beyond surroundings
"Flares"
Rockets would light up the sky
"All their eyes are ice"
Metaphorically reference to dead and alive men
"Innocent mice rejoiced"
Many that signed up for the war were under-aged and really young. It also symbolises their death
Wilfred Owen
Enlisted in British Army in 1915
Hospitalised from 'shell-shock', now known as PTSD
PTSD came from witnessing deaths in the trenches
Author of Exposure
Which is a reference of WW1