Exposure (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: 1910’s, War, Death or dying, World War I, Soldiers, Weather
The Poem
“Exposure” examines the sensations of soldiers slowly freezing to death in the trenches of World War I in a poem of forty lines divided into eight stanzas. The persona of the poem adopts the identity of all the soldiers as they huddle against the wind and snow on the war front waiting for something to happen. As the cold sets in, sentries and ordinary soldiers watch confusing flares in the frontline fortification from which they have withdrawn for the night. Gusts of wind moan on the barbed wire of no-man’s-land like dying men, while guns rumble in the distance,...
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