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Poetry Revision

Poetry Revision. ‘Exposure’. How has the experience of war affected the voice in ‘Exposure’?. Psychologically scarred – possible shell-shock? Loneliness Sadness . Effects. Voice.

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Poetry Revision

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  1. Poetry Revision ‘Exposure’

  2. How has the experience of war affected the voice in ‘Exposure’? Psychologically scarred – possible shell-shock? Loneliness Sadness Effects

  3. Voice • Use of collective pronouns – ‘our’ / ‘we’ / ‘us’ – emphasises the number of men involved, collective experience • ‘but nothing happens’ / ‘what are we doing here’ – last line in each stanza represents how soldiers feel, emphasises their confusion

  4. Imagery • Use of pathetic fallacy throughout (stanza 1, stanza 3) • Use of personification in the first stanza • SIMILE in stanza 2 • Soldiers figured as ‘ghosts’ in stanza 6 • Contrast imagery in stanza 8 • View of themselves in the final stanza

  5. Language features • Sibilance in first stanza • Alliteration in stanza 4 • ‘snow-dazed’ ‘sun-dozed’ • Contrast of experience at war and at home

  6. Rhyme and rhythm • Half rhymes present – sense of being not quite alive / conscious / sense of confusion / ‘dazed’

  7. Form and Structure • Movement from beginning to end: soldiers lose humanity / life, become psychologically damaged, and also have physically suffered • How does the poem end? Repeated- cyclical, nothing changes, no resolution for the soldiers, no sense of hope • Lots of structural features eg Ellipsis in stanza 1… - sense of unknown, nothing changing • Some enjambement but mostly separate lines – rhythm? Beat, monotony, unceasing – reflects sentiment in the last line of the poem

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