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‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Starter TaskRe-read the poemBullet point one sentence to explain what is going on in each stanza (you should end up with 8 bullet points)

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the readerSlide2

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Starter TaskThe speaker is a soldier in the trenches of WW1. It is night and they are waiting for the enemy to attack, but the trenches are silent and nothing is happening.They can hear the wind and explosions in the distance but nothing is happening where they are.

Dawn breaks and it is raining, wet, cold and miserable.

There are occasional bullets sounding but they seem less dangerous than the freezing weather.

It is snowing heavily and they try to hide from it because they are so cold.They are finally able to sleep and they dream of home.They believe that they have to die to save those at home.He thinks about the night ahead which will be freezing cold and many soldiers will die, but they will still be waiting for the enemy attack.

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the readerSlide3

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent…Low, drooping flares confuse our memories of the salient…Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, But nothing happens.

Watching

, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire,

Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles.Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles,Far off, like a dull rumour of some other war. What are we doing here?The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow…We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy.

Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army

Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey,

But nothing happens.Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow,With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew,We watch them wandering up and down the wind’s nonchalance, But nothing happens.

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

Theme of WarOwen once declared of all his writing that: ‘My theme is war and the pity of war’. In this poem he looks at a particular aspect of how death claimed the lives of so many soldiers.

The soldiers seem to have little idea of where they are, what they are fighting for and for how long it will be. There is only one certainty and it is that war is something that persists.

Theme of Weather

The

freezing conditions are seen as being as dangerous as the enemy. The soldiers are fighting two battles at once and at one point, bullets are seen as less deadly than the cold.

The weather is likened to an army that gathers and assaults the soldiers in the trenches.Slide4

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces –We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed,Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed,Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses. Is it that we are dying?Slowly

our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed

With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there;

For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs;Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, – We turn back to our dying.Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn;Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit.For God’s invincible spring our love is made afraid;Therefore, not loath, we lie out here; therefore were born,

For

love of God seems dying.

Tonight, His frost will fasten on this mud and us,Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp.The burying party, picks and shovels in the shaking grasp,Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice, But nothing happens.LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

Theme of Despair

One of the casualties of war is the men’s loss of faith in what they are doing and why they are there. Death is seen as inevitable.The soldiers have lost their religious faith. This implies that they are not looking forward to any sort of after-life once death has occurred and it makes their situation even more distressing.Slide5

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Exposure

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

To death

– of themselves and others

To the

extreme weather

conditionsPhotograph- The exposure creates the print and this poem is highly photographic (lots of imagery)Slide6

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Our brains ache, in the merciless

ed east winds that knive u

…

Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent…Low, drooping flares confuse our memories of the

salient…Worried by silen

ce, sentries

whisper, curious

, nervous

But nothing happens.

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

Sibilance in the opening line

Sound of the wind? = cold & sinister

Sound of a snake = danger

Alliteration

Slower – reflects the length of time waiting

Weariness emphasised

Sibilance

Recreates the sound of silence – hushed waiting

Half rhyme

Owen wants to make us feel uneasy straight away

Short, indented line

Emphasises the disappointment

METAPHOR

The wind is so cold and strong, it is like they are being stabbed by it

Suggests danger & life-threatening Slide7

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire,

twitching agonies of men among its brambles

.Northward, incessantly, the flickering gunnery rumbles,Far off, like a dull rumour

of some other war

What are we doing here?LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

Participle endingsUsed to prolong the present – emphasises the waiting

Personification

Describing the wind how the men feel themselvesTRANSPOSITION of their own emotions onto outside world

Simile/Metaphor

Famous image

of soldier, dead, wrapped in barbed wire

Rhetorical Question

Why are they fighting?

Protesting / challenging the reader to answer.

Simile

Ironic - like the soldiers’ brains have distanced themselves from the war they’re inSlide8

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

The poignant misery of dawn begins to grow…We only

know

war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag

stormy.Dawn massing in the east her melancholy armyAttacks once more in ranks on

shivering ranks of

grey

,But nothing happens.LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

Dawn personified in this stanzaIt is described as an army

Emphasising sadness- Not fear like you’d expect

Half-rhyme

Doesn’t quite rhyme

Rhymes but not in the right placeUnpredictable – like the attack they’re waiting for

Repeated

Becomes a refrain, like the chorus of a song

- Emphasises the waiting

Talking about the battle, but also the inaction of anyone to do anything about the conditions – the war just continues despite the suffering

Transposition

Describing the dawn like this, but also this is how the soldiers feelSlide9

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Sudden success

ive

flights

of bullets streak the silenc

Less deadly than the air that

shudders black with snow,With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause, and renew,We watch them wandering up and down

the wind’s nonchalance,

But nothing happens.LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the reader

SibilanceRepresents the sound of bullets

But ironic because it is a soft sound – the danger is removed & they feel this.

Personification

And Transposition – they are shuddering

Transposition

The people at home are also

nonchalent

about the suffering of the soldiers

Metaphor

Compares bullets to birds

(flying through the sky)

Repetition

of ‘nothing’ emphasises the futility (pointlessness) of the situationSlide10

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling

or our

faces –We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare,

snow-dazed

Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed,Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses.

Is it that we are dying?

LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the readerPersonification

Makes the snow seem sneaky/sly/crafty – nightmarish image.Suggesting that nature has wicked intentions – the silent enemy.

Alliteration

Harsh ‘f’ sound reflects the harsh conditions. Sounds angry/aggressive.

Theme of Despair

They are reminiscing about better times.

Dreamless = hopeless.

Contrasting images highlight the difference between their normal lives and war.

They dream of home while dosing and these memories are soft, warm and comforting.

Rhetorical Question

Suggests that they are weary / losing consciousnessSlide11

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozedWith crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there;

For hours the

innocent mice rejoice

: the house is theirs;Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed, – We

turn back to our

dying

.LO: To understand the poem’s form, structure and language and be able to comment on their effects on the readerMetaphor for dreaming

Suggests death: at home the men are only memories and they may never return. “drag” shows the effort it takes to even dream.

Glozed = to flatter or ‘gloss over’ the truthIs this dream temporarily ‘glossing over’ the reality of war?

Comforting images of home:

‘Dark-red’ suggests warmthsound of ‘crickets’ outside on a summer’s night in comparison to the sounds of bullets;

Also ‘cricket’ as traditionally English; ‘jingle’ suggests

celebration, family. Love, food, warmth at Christmas.

The trenches were infested with vermin.‘innocent mice’ could also be a metaphor for the young, ‘innocent’ soldiers who often signed up and were ‘blind’ to the realities of war.

Repetition

…of ‘closed’ and ‘dying’ (from previous stanza).

Highlights the hopelessness of their situation - all other options (apart from death) are closed to them.

Theme of despairSlide12

‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen

Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires

burn

;

Nor ever suns smile true on child, or field, or fruit

For

God’s invincible spring our love is made afraid;Therefore, not loath

, we lie out here; therefore were born, For love of God seems dying