... deny the fact that the poem also has a Romantic flavor. This is obviously due to the influence of Romanticism on a pre-war' Owen. Poets such as John Keats and William Coleridge were especially a favorite of the young war poet and Owen alludes to poems by both poets in Exposure , not obsequiously, but as a type of satire,"˜ aimed at dislodging romantic ... Exposure' read: Since we believe not otherwise can kind fires burn; Nor ever suns true on child, or field, or fruit (lines 35-36) Additionally, Owen also seems to mock Coleridge's poem, Frost At Midnight', in which the frostiness of t...

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