'Exposure'+questions

1. 1. What are the soldiers doing? 2. 2. Why are they worried? 3. 3. Quote the main example of repetition. What is the effect of this repetition? 4. 4. How does the meaning change in the last stanza? 5. 5. What is being described in stanza three? What poetic techniques are used and what is the effect? 6. 6. What do the soldiers fear more, the weather or the war? How do you know? 7. 7. What is the poet doing in stanza 6? What picture is created and how is it in contrast to the present situation? 8. 8. In stanza 7 why does the poet mean when he says ‘Therefore were born, For love of God seems dying.’? 9. 9. How has the meaning of ‘But nothing happens’ changed in the last stanza? 10. 10. Identify three poetic techniques and explain the effect of each.
 * Exposure ** by Wilfred Owen