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exposure - Coggle Diagram
exposure
"watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire"
"watching" - sensory imagery, soldiers are on high alert
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"w" alliteration - quivering or sobbing, cements misery
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"we only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy"
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sibilance adds sinister tone making war seem threatening, and recreates silence
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opening
"our brains ache int he merciless iced east winds that knife us" - resembles opening of keates' poem "ode to a nightingale", showing keates' influence on him
by opening poem with "brains", he immediately establishes the psychological damage of war
could be interpreted in several ways - physical brain and literal ache from cold vs psychological pain
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context
owen originally pursued a career in the church but felt it was hypocritical as it did not care for its dependants. he became a soldier and was killed in battle a week before armistice in 1918
inspired by keats and sassoon - sassoon later acted as mentor towards owen whilst he suffered with shellshocked In hospital - therapist advised owen to write about his experiences rather than internalising them
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in contemporary britain, war was severely romanticised - reflected by other war poetry at the time which focused on the honour of war in comparison
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