Comparison between Breakfast and Exposure - This essay talks about the poem's purpose and the poet's techniques and to show how Wilfred Owen and W.W.Gibson see the glamorized image surrounding the war.

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ENOCK KIPRONO                                        

ENGLISH ESSAY

COMPARING BETWEEN “BREAKFAST” AND “EXPOSURE” 

This essay talks about the poem’s purpose and the poet’s techniques and to show how Wilfred Owen and W.W.Gibson see the glamorized image surrounding the war. Both of these poems have many things in common they both are a war poem, they can be seen as biased and one sided as the story is only told by one person.

BREAKFAST

This poem is about soldiers taking their breakfast during war in the trenches. The poem describes that even soldiers take normal breakfast as we do every morning. They are trying to enjoy themselves to prevent them from being nervous and coward. They talk about which team in a local football club is going to win. They even take their bets by using food.

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“Breakfast” is composed of one verse of nine lines. The line length is about 6-10 words.

This poem’s purpose is describing an experience that the soldiers had in the trenches during a war. The poem describes how the soldiers have to live in the trenches. They are not supposed to raise their head. This is because they can be shot, so they have to lie on their backs every time when they are in the trenches.

This poem also doesn’t describe a lot about the surroundings. The first two lines and the last two lines ...

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