Compare the ways in which Wilfred Owen portrays the extreme situations which the soldiers experience in the poems Exposure and Spring Offensive poems.

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Compare the ways in which Wilfred Owen portrays the extreme situations which the soldiers experience in the poems 'Exposure' and 'Spring Offensive'

Wilfred Owen was a soldier during World War 1. He had first-hand experience in the worst warfare known to man. Exposure and Spring Offensive help to portray these extreme situations. They do this very well due to the fact that Owen had first-hand experience and that his precise use of language techniques help bring out the real circumstances as he saw them.

To begin with, the poem 'Exposure' is based on the experiences of soldiers in the trenches. We are taken through the day in chronological order, from early morning, to dawn and then to night again. Set in first person, we see and experience the world through the soldiers. This full sensory experience entails the vivid description that helps bring the world to life. One of the first things we are aware of is the extreme cold. The setting is presumably in deep winter as we experience 'iced east winds' and 'sidelong flowing flakes'. Throughout the poem there is mostly quietness, with occasional references to noise, such as when bullets 'streak the silence'.