Exposure
- Created by: pinkbeer
- Created on: 26-07-19 15:08
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- Exposure
- Personification" Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
- Emphasises their hardship and the enemies they must force; it is not just other soldiers against them but nature
- Correlates to the poems name/ core meaning as they are constantly vulnerable
- 'brains ache' insinuates the mental fatigue and manipulation
- The winds are phantoms of the soldiers they are yet to fight
- The cold can burn/ sling, mimicking actual weapons
- They can't control nature or defeat it
- The wind 'stabs' them a particularly violent/ relentless attack. Connects its to bayonets on the end of rifles
- It impacts their hope/ determination and ruins their motivation to fight/ feel patriotic
- The wind seems to stalk them- attacks are unexpected
- The war is a physical and mental challenge 'brains ache'
- The 'knife' like frostbite
- Personification "Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey, but something happens"
- Personifies the weather as if it was a second army
- The ranks of soldiers are disordered/ shivering due to cold
- No control/ sense of direction from the generals
- 'Nothing' happens- contrast- emphasises helplessness of the men
- Frustration/ paranoia increases during the silence
- 'Ranks'- the dead are remembered/ ranked and glorified, but the survivors aren't credited / noted
- Exhausation 'once more' preparing to die/ no energy
- They're forced to continue, but the meaning is lost
- Repetition of 'nothing happens' increases tension/ involves the reader
- Metaphor "Like twitching agonises of men among its brambles"
- Nature is demonisied
- The brambles represent the barbed wire/ a wall preventing escape. Bodies are dying, caught on it
- The agony is visual, but silent- they're expected to conceal their fear like machines/ twitch like puppets on a string
- The pain is extreme- physical and mental- they see the suffering
- The men are only recognised after death before this- like machines
- Wind/ men connect- both expendable and are not consistent
- Metaphor "All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens
- Eyes frozen 'open'- always aware
- Forced to be like this (machines)
- Could also signify death and the fast that they are not classified as individuals, until later
- Suspense- the wind/ conditions are the invisible enemy- more deadly
- 'Ice'- emotions/ hope have been stripped from the soldiers. They are dead/cold
- They are 'machine-like'- no souls
- War is futile- no gain
- Personification" Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
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