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Poetry – Exposure Ma
Learning outcomes:
Learning Objective: explore how ideas about the Recall prior knowledge linked to language, form and structure in poetry
power of nature are presented in Exposure Discuss how key ideas are presented in Wilfred Owen’s Exposure
Demonstrate understanding of the poem through annotations in our anthology
What do we need to know about W
Wilfred Owen went to
the Front in the
‘No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the
Somme in the winter moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awfu
of 1916-17. The abode of madness… My platoon had no dug-outs,
weather was bitterly had to lie out in the snow under the deadly wind…
cold and claimed the
lives of many men. Hideous landscapes, vile noises....everything
unnatural, broken, blastered; the distortion of th
In January 1917 he
dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug
wrote to his mother outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights
the following letter: earth.’
, Mod
Poetry – Exposure Guided
Learning outcomes:
Learning Objective: explore how ideas about the Recall prior knowledge linked to language, form and structure in poetry
power of nature are presented in Exposure Discuss how key ideas are presented in Wilfred Owen’s Exposure
Demonstrate understanding of the poem through annotations in our anthology
Pronouns are all first person plural
– suggesting unity of soldiers
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that
knive us ...
Personification: Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ...
the wind is like Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient ...
an assassin Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous,
But nothing happens.
Sibilance echoes the sound of the wind (line 1) and
the whispering of the sentries (line 4)
Poetry – Exposure Ma
Learning outcomes:
Learning Objective: explore how ideas about the Recall prior knowledge linked to language, form and structure in poetry
power of nature are presented in Exposure Discuss how key ideas are presented in Wilfred Owen’s Exposure
Demonstrate understanding of the poem through annotations in our anthology
What do we need to know about W
Wilfred Owen went to
the Front in the
‘No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the
Somme in the winter moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awfu
of 1916-17. The abode of madness… My platoon had no dug-outs,
weather was bitterly had to lie out in the snow under the deadly wind…
cold and claimed the
lives of many men. Hideous landscapes, vile noises....everything
unnatural, broken, blastered; the distortion of th
In January 1917 he
dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug
wrote to his mother outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights
the following letter: earth.’
, Mod
Poetry – Exposure Guided
Learning outcomes:
Learning Objective: explore how ideas about the Recall prior knowledge linked to language, form and structure in poetry
power of nature are presented in Exposure Discuss how key ideas are presented in Wilfred Owen’s Exposure
Demonstrate understanding of the poem through annotations in our anthology
Pronouns are all first person plural
– suggesting unity of soldiers
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that
knive us ...
Personification: Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent ...
the wind is like Low drooping flares confuse our memory of the salient ...
an assassin Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous,
But nothing happens.
Sibilance echoes the sound of the wind (line 1) and
the whispering of the sentries (line 4)
