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  • Essay / Wilfred Owen Exposure Essay - 1414

    This is also demonstrated when he writes that soldiers do not believe in spring. It seems that the soldiers believe that they will not survive to see their future. “Its frost” (line 36) shows that everyone has turned their backs on the soldiers, even God and strong diction like “tie” (line 36) shows how this mud will not come off the soldiers, as if they would die. Strong and terrifying images of frozen bodies are created from words such as “shrivelled” (line 37) and “half-known” (line 39) show how these bodies of the soldiers can no longer be recognized. The last lines show that even though many soldiers die, it has no effect on the war as a whole and the bullets did not kill these soldiers, nature killed them. Moreover, it shows that they are ordinary soldiers. the ways of dying are no less tragic than dying by gunshot