Exposure

Brains aching, dying, eyes becoming ice, all this sounds like a nightmare. In Wilfred Owen’s “Exposure,” the speaker talks about the nightmares of not war but the cruelty of nature. In Exposure, Owen describes the fury of nature and how soldiers in the war die not only because of war. Exposure to the severe cold is killing everyone. The speaker starts off by saying, “Our brains ache.” The negative nature of this statement gives …

…hear the screaming or moaning of the men in agony. Clearly, Wilfred Owen tries to show not only the suffering caused by the war, but also by nature and God. Owen succeeds in keeping the sad and negative mood alive throughout the poem, even after the short cheery moment. Owen drifts away from the topic of war, and still is able to tell the misfortune of men during exposure to nature at time of war.