Exposure' is also an example of Owen's experiment with rhyming schemes and sounds. True to the modernist endorsement of innovative methods of writing, Owen develops an amazing technical skill with the use of assonance and para-rhyme (Purkis 118), partly inverting the dominant tradition of poetic diction. ... Coupled with the rhyme style: knive us'- nervous' , silent' - salient', the result is that the reader is left on edge, aware of the tension the soldiers are experiencing . ... Poets such as John Keats and William Coleridge were especially a favorite of th...

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