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Power and conflict - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Wilfred Owen fought in the World War 1 and died 1 week before Armistice
        wrote 'Exposure' on the battlefields
        most poems written to shine a light on the reality and harsh conditions of war, and criticise the government for not making soldiers aware of the reality of war with the propaganda.
    - - "Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us..."
        -Sibilance /fricative sounds mirror the intense weather conditions
        -Personification of the wind harming the soldiers
        War isn't what they fear, it's dying from the extreme weather.
        -ellipses show waiting and boredom
      - "sentries whisper"
        -shows passiveness in war - soldiers feel pointless, awaiting death
      - anaphora /rhyme scheme 5th lines - "what are we doing here?" "is it that we are dying?" "but nothing happens"
        -questioning motivation to fight
        -repetitive conflict
      - "for love of God seems dying"
        -religious references of Jesus suffering and dying to save humanity
        -acceptance like Jesus - "we turn back to our dying"
        alternatively:
        -soldiers lose their love for God
        -difficult to reconcile the theory of an all-loving god when war exists
      - personifying nature
  - - - Both realize when they get to war that it is much different than what they were expecting
      - Psychological effects of war
      - In Exposure, the soldier seems ready to fight, shown in the repetition of "nothing happens" whereas in Bayonet Charge the soldier "almost stops"