Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.

Big Question How does Wilfred Owen portray front line combat in ‘Exposure’? Wilfred Owen The Somme Trench warfare

Conflict Futility Desperation Death Vulnerability Attrition Silence Fragility Hopelessness Cruelty Attack Instability

Literacy Task Within to weeks of Wilfred Owens arrival at the Somme, he was comanding a platoon on the front line. In the midst of heavy gunfire he waded for miles through the trenches with the constant threat of gas atacks. The brutal reality of war had a profound affect on him; the poem ‘exposure’ provides specific details of this period. Source: British Library website

Literacy Task Within two weeks of Wilfred Owen’s arrival at the Somme, he was commanding a platoon on the front line. In the midst of heavy gunfire, he waded for miles through the trenches with the constant threat of gas attacks. The brutal reality of war had a profound effect on him; the poem ‘Exposure’ provides specific details of this period. Source: British Library website

Big Question How does Wilfred Owen portray front line combat in ‘Exposure’?

Big Question How does Wilfred Owen portray front line combat in ‘Exposure’? • • Adjective Metaphor Simile Rhetorical question Owen provides a first-hand account of the brutal reality of front-line combat on the Western Front during World War I. In the first stanza, he uses the adjective ‘merciless’ to describe…