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This document goes through a full analysis of the poem Exposure. It talks about the language and structure devices used. Furthermore, there a few already annotated and analysed quotes, that would be useful for a GCSE exam.

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  • June 11, 2023
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Edexcel GCSE poetry- Exposure




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It’s about the horrors that Wilfred Owen had to experience while fighting in the
First World War. He wrote it while he was fighting in the trenches in 1917. The
poem went against all the things that the people in England were being told
about the war and being shown, the poem “de-romanticised” the war.

Language:
Personification
Lots of personification is used, this could be to show the effect mentally the war
had on the soldiers and how they were going “insane”this was later described to
be shellshock, which in modern day is known to be PTSD.

Listing
Listing is used when Owen is describing the feelings of the soldiers, this could
present how the soldier continually lived in fear of what was to come from the
other side. It could also present the prolonged period that they had to live in
these conditions.

Use of religious language
Religion was very important at the time, so the use of the phrase “for love of
god, seems dying” would show the little amount of hope they had, as they felt
that even God wasn’t able to help.

Structure:
Cyclical
The last line of the first and last stanza is “but nothing happens” this could
reflect how hopeless Owen was feeling, and how he thought the war was never
going to end.

Caesura
Owen uses colon to separate talking about the war and home in the quote
“slowly our ghosts drag us home: glimpsing the sunk fires”. This could be to
show the different between the soldiers homes and the trenches and how the
soldiers are so desparte to go homes.

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