Notes on Exposure by Wilfred Owen.

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Owen Wilfred was a soldier himself; there for he is writing from experience, this poem is also linked to spring offensive in many ways.

The poem “Exposure” was written by Wilfred Owen. It was set in World War 1 and most probably in a bad conditioned trench it is from a soldier’s point of view (Wilfred Owens). There is a link to the title “Exposure” and to the soldiers that are being exposed to such bad weather, and they were dying of exposure it also gives you a rough idea of what the poem will be about. Wilfred Owen could also be exposing some information about the war that most people did not know about, the truth is being ‘exposed’. The weather was freezing, we know this because he uses personification to explain iced winds “merciless iced winds”, he distracts himself by thinking about dying and asking himself what he is doing here. Most people did not always die by getting shot, but by suffering from the coldness of the weather. This poem is about the misery that the soldiers were feeling. The soldiers did not know what they were doing there and that nothing happens except for shooting, continuously. There are ways that Owen conveys (make an idea, feeling etc known or understandable to someone) his ideas by saying what people’s feelings are and things happen so fast, he also wanted to die. He conveys these by using images

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"Attacks once more in shivering ranks of grey." This relates to the rain and the clouds, but it could also relate to the German Army. They wore grey and they attacks in ranks of grey time after time just like the rain. The shivering part could relate to the fact that they are also feeling the effects of the cold weather.

In the poem Exposure Owen uses personification of the weather to show that war is all around them. Weather is something of which no man can control.

Simile (- don’t rite that)-The line "With crusted dark-red jewels" ...

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