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GCSE Poetry- Exposure - Coggle Diagram
GCSE Poetry- Exposure
Recap Points
Developed shell-shock, combat stress reaction, PTSD
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Stanzas have the same lines, rhyme scheme ABBAC= represents the building of momentum and the anticipation of battle that is never realised
Para-rhyme= contain the same consonant sounds but not vowels: "knives us" with "nervous"= creates the sense of being nervously on edge
Poem,can be seen as a comment on the futility and pointlessness of war
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Originally Owen wanted to join the Church but gave up on that pursuit when he realised they were not caring about their local community
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Form
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Present tense, using a first person plural- collective voice shows how the experience was shared by soldiers across the war
Half rhyme- offers no comfort or satisfaction. Rhymes are jagged like the men's experience; reflects their confusion and fading energy
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Structure
Last stanza ends with the same words as the first stanza- reflects the monotony of life in the trenches and absence of change
Eight stanzas, no progression
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Wilfred Owen and WW1
Mother received a letter informing of his death as the bells were ringing out in celebration of the peace on 11th November 1918
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During the somme over 60,000 British soldiers died in 1 day, and they only gained 6 miles by the end of the war
Owen's poems were often angry that soldiers were in muddy dangerous trenches while the generals behind the lines were living in comfort, and tried to show the truth of conditions to people back home
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Key Quotes
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"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us"
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