1. Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.

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

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

4. 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

5. 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

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

8. 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…