What Is The Mood Of The Poem Exposure

The poem Exposure by Wilfred Owen uses a lot of language features to reveal his purpose. Wilfred Owen wanted to educate and reveal to the world the horrors of war.

Wilfred Owen personifies the weather in the poem Exposure, for example in the poem it quotes “Our brains ache, in the merciless red east winds that knife us”. Owen used this language technique really well because it paints a picture of the horrors of war. This shows the authors purpose which he was informing and teaching us something about the severe weather. The line “Winds that knife us” suggests that the wind is so powerful and spine tingling that its slowly killing them. This shows the extremely frightening weather at war and what the bodies of the poor soldiers feel and go

For example in the poem Exposure it quotes “Watching we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, like twitching agonies of men among its bramble” The author executed this language feature very well by describing how the men were shaking inside the trenches. The line “Like twitching agonies of men” Suggests how the men were trembling in distress and also displaying the psychological effects of war, which were shell shock and PTSD(post traumatic stress disorder) taking its toll on the poor soldiers. They also were shaking because it was freezing at war. The effect or impact the poem has on me as a reader makes me think about the suffering of the poor soldiers and the conditions that the soldiers are living in, it also makes me rethink about war. My thoughts on war were that going to war was a awesome opputurnity to serve your country also for men to prove their competence and courage but reality is, war is tough and unbeareable and is nothing like people describe in movies. Wilfred Owen has revealed that through his poem. During war you go through hardship and battle, but its also when you leave war that you gain illness/conditions. We have been brained wash to think that going to war is a good thing, but you are murdering others killing them and making them suffer. Their is no glamour to war it is