Bookmarks by Rajib Khan Year 10 https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks Made with a quick smile en-us 2020-06-05 13:45:36 UTC 2020-06-05 14:27:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Exposure by Wilfred Owen cilomee https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613042358 Exposure is a poem written by former World War 1 soldier Wilfred Owen, Owen fought in the trenches and this poem offers a first hand  account of life in a trench exposed to harsh weather conditions. Owen exposes the realities of life in a trench where there is just as much a chance of dying from the weather as there is from bullets. The poem includes ideas that connect to the experience of conflict, the effects of conflict and how nature and power can connect. ]]> 2020-06-05 14:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613042358 THE MESSAGE OF THE POEM: 16rajkhan https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613062067
Owens suggests that the experience of war is a mundane routine. This is shown throughout the poem through the uses of caesuras and personifications. He makes it clear that there will be no change even in the harsh environment, therefore Owen exposes to us that the real enemy is the government and nature rather than men they are fighting. ]]> 2020-06-05 14:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613062067 Thinking about Context cilomee https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613063285 A key part of the poem is how it represents the educated soldier who could read and write. In previous wars, soldiers were illiterate so there were not many first hand accounts of life in a war. This was part of the reason as to why people forgot about the brutality of war and led people to look forward to the 'The Great War'. Owen highlights (or exposes it matches the title) how a modern war is more destructive than ever and how the dangers of weather never appeared in Romantic poems about nature such as 'Ode to a Nightingale' by John Keats. For the first time, the British public (readers) could imagine life as a soldier. ]]> 2020-06-05 14:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613063285 'in the merciless iced east winds that knive us...Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent...' 16rajkhan https://padlet.com/16rajkhan/Bookmarks/wish/613083219
The harsh weather conditions are an additional opponent for the soldiers. There are sibilant ’s' and alliterative‘w’ sounds in ‘iced east winds’ — consonances that convey the biting cold, the intensity of the wind that hurts them as if stabbed with a knife.


The personification of the wind suggests that the weather is like a deliberately vicious and inescapable enemy. The men are faced with double peril; enemy soldiers and the risk of hypothermia from exposure. To emphasize how long this drags on, ellipses are used after ‘silent’…

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