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Ex Posure

Content

• Describes a night moving into morning at the front
  • Nothing happens except for death
  • The war itself seems very far away
• War is bad not only in the crises, but also in the boredom, the slow death, the waiting, the sleeping

Style

• Frequent use of ellipses = murky atmosphere
  • Makes the reader feel sleepy too
• Last line of each stanza repeats
  • “But nothing happens” is the refrain
  • Interrupted a few times times: “What are we doing here?” “Is it that we are dying” “For love of God seems dying.” “We turn back to our dying.
  • Shows us that death is happening, despite it superficially looking like nothing is happening. They are ignoring death.