GCSE English: "Exposure" Study Guide

[@Intervelv]

Thank you for these study guides, I have just finished my controlled assessment on comparing both this poem and Spring Offensive and they've been a fantastic help in structuring my essay and drawing out comparisons from the poems :). Thank you very much!

[@vayep]

thankyou very much!!! i have my controlled assesment on this tomorrow and thank God i found this video! appreciate the work you guys are doing :)

[@Nvidiaguides]

I feel the sibilance in the stanza 16-17 suggests the searing projectiles flying past them at great velocities and was integrated into the poem for more emphasis on extreme situations.

[@Fentna]

@bm124 "heart aches" is from Keats's 'Ode to Nightingale'. Some do reckon that the line from Owen's poem 'exposure', "our brains ache", was conceptualised with regard to Keat's work in an attempt to show the contrast between the romantic poet's world and his own.

[@95pembo]

Brilliant Videos, just what I needed to do my controlled assessment

[@Intervelv]

Some more feedback: My mark was 40/40 on the poetry essay. I included some of the points you make in this study guide and am extremely grateful that you have taken the time to make them, as well as the other people who have made one. If you have time could you, like you are currently doing for the OCR controlled assessment on Romeo and Juliet, do one on along the same line of Macbeth if at all possible please? Again, very grateful for your guides on the poetry assessment, so thank you!

[@cheekymonkey569]

This analysis is amazing!!! Really helped me with what i had to d. I will certainly be checking out your other videos :)

[@2ScoopsandIceFan]

I think quite a good point is to look at the end lines of the stanzas that aren't "but nothing happens". The first example ask "What are we doing here?" Owen then debates it with the next two examples: "Is it that we are dying?"/"We turn back to our dying" before he eventually concludes on the question by stating "For love of God seems dying". The line "but nothing happens" is a microcosm for the entire poem, but the final lines of the other stanzas are an interesting little side-thought

[@eyobelsolomon8185]

I very very very very very very very very thank you for this podcast.

[@campbell312810]

Watched this in English today in preparation for our essay in a couple of weeks time.

[@Nvidiaguides]

@bm124 Also, the lines 13-14 is interesting as it features the words 'ranks of grey'. I find this fairly significant as nature is reflecting the physical enemy, that being the Germans as the Germans wore grey uniforms in combat which subtly emphasises how nature has turned it's back on humanity

[@c_n_o_]

houghton kepier sports college appreciates this so much, thanks

[@cheekymonkey569]

will you do an analysis on 'O What Is That Sound'? :D

[@vayep]

@bm124 please please PLEASE can you send me some more mini paragraphs i can use like the ones in the sample comparison document. thankyou

[@aym280]

I understand that spring symbolises the good, the beginning of lives; however, spring offensive is really a historical event happened to be in spring, hence to impute any meaning the title is a bit stretching too far ..

[@MrDobby12345]

really handy thing to access.

[@cheekymonkey569]

can someone please help me with the second stanza?

[@AWaterhouse123]

Classic english ...

[@mistharay1]

oh why didn't i find your videos earlier!! nevertheless thank you so much!!!!

[@Fentna]

It's " our brains ache" not "hearts ache"!