Exposure-Wilfred Owen; annotations and notes
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- Created on: 24-01-14 13:08
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- Exposure-Wilfred Owen
- CRITICAL ARGUMENT:
- Yeats
- 'Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry'
- Yeats
- "Nothing happens"
- Repeated four times throughout poem
- Only small changes in the time of day,weather and progress of the war
- Poem's form is circular
- trapped inbetween life and death
- situation is unchanged in first and last verse
- Influence of Keats
- CRITICAL ARGUMENT:
- Yeats
- 'Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry'
- Yeats
- "Our brains ache" similiar to "Our hearts ache"
- CRITICAL ARGUMENT:
- "Crusted dark-red jewels"
- Ivor Novello song
- "Keep your home fires burning...though your lads are far away from home."
- fires are beautiful but like jewels they offer no warmth or comfort
- Ivor Novello song
- "Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed"
- suggests if the young men went home they wouldn't be welcomed
- Emphasis in Verse 6 is on "us"
- The men are compelled and expected to stay where they are
- Christ imagery (Verse 7)
- suggests the men are dying willingly
- "not loath"
- "we believe"
- Owen heavily stresses this line
- Perhaps reflecting own disillusionment with religion
- Owen heavily stresses this line
- for the sake of others
- "Love of God seems dying"
- His previous faith in Christinanity now seems inappropriate
- suggests the men are dying willingly
- Half-rhymes
- "knive us/nervous"
- "nonchalance / happens"
- Based on Owen's own experiences of winter at the front line 1917
- irony
- ironic due to dying in the elements and not due to to fighting
- LINKS:
- "the monstrous anger of the guns"
- comparisons can be drawn here from a huge range of texts in the selection and from wider reading
- LINKS:
- ironic due to dying in the elements and not due to to fighting
- The fifth lines of each stanza are confused and questoning
- mirrors confusion of brain slowly freezing to death
- CRITICAL ARGUMENT:
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