Exposure

Question 1

This is a shared painful experience. Nature is personified and seems to be attacking them

Answer 1

“Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us…”

Question 2

Final stanza ends in same way as first stanza, suggesting that even death doesn’t change anything

Answer 2

“But nothing happens”

Question 3

Half rhyme creates link between current situation and their dreams of the past

Answer 3

“forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed”

Question 4

A sense of acceptance of death

Answer 4

“we turn back to our dying”

Question 5

Sibilance mimics the whistling sounds of bullets flying

Answer 5

“sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence”