Exposure

Question 1

Who is this poem by

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

Is it about intense cold or heat

Answer 2

Cold

Question 3

Does it have lots of metaphors personification or similes

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

What war is it based on?

Answer 4

WW1

Question 5

What is significant of “but nothing happens”

Answer 5

It is repeated throughout the poem and is reflecting the vicious cycle that lies for new recruits

Question 6

What is the main cause of death in Exposure

Answer 6

Dying from the cold

Question 7

What are the 2 meanings of “for love of god seems dying”

Answer 7

Human love for god is dying or Gods love for humans is dying

Question 8

Why is there so much personification?

Answer 8

To emphasise how cold it is

Question 9

What is the personification mainly about?

Answer 9

How harsh the cold is

Question 10

What do lots of half rhymes show?

Answer 10

How deteriorated the soldiers minds are

Question 11

The poem has caesura, what is this?

Answer 11

Punctuation in the middle of a line

Question 12

What is the effect of an ellipsis?

Answer 12

Time dragging on

Question 13

How many stanzas are there?

Answer 13

8

Question 14

Why do the soldiers still have the will to fight

Answer 14

So future generations will be safe

Question 15

Bullets are described as less deadly than what?

Answer 15

The cold

Question 16

What is a key theme in exposure

Answer 16

Humans vs nature

Question 17

How does Wilfred Owen’s show that the soldiers are doomed?

Answer 17

Constant reminds with war noises like gunfire, the weather has turned against the soldiers and they have a sense of despair

Question 18

The soldiers think about happier places in stanza 5. What do they think is happening

Answer 18

They think the images might be a sign they are dying