Remains

Question 1

Compare remains to war photographer

Answer 1

The subject of “Remains” feels a sense of detached guilt for the harm he has caused, while in “War Photographer”, he feels guilt at not being able to do more to help the victims of war.”

Question 2

What does enjambment at end of stanza show

Answer 2

Emphasizes the very moment the soldiers life was ruined, after this he becomes a new person
Like a story - reliving every moment

Question 3

Quottion that shows that the he is going to move in but doesn’t

Answer 3

“Then i’m at home on leave.” - full stop emphasizes this

Question 4

What quotation is repeated

Answer 4

“Probably armed, Possibly not” - can’t escape, sense of guilt

Question 5

Effect of caesura

Answer 5

There is still chaos in his life

Question 6

Quotation that shows he is struggling at hom

Answer 6

“The drink and the drugs won’t wash him out”

Question 7

Idea of permanence

Answer 7

“His blood shadow stayed on the street”

Question 8

Quotation that shows futility and hopelessness

Answer 8

‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’ - last line of peom so its quite anti-climatic as the final stanza is also only 2 lines. Also as it is only 2 lines, as it is in the present it emphasises that he doesn’t think much of the present and more of the past. It is also an allusion to Lady Macbeth hintiing to his sense of guilt

Question 9

Tautology demonstrated in stanza 2

Answer 9

Tautology - saying the same thing again in a different way
“Three of a kind all letting fly”
“All three”
“All”
However this is contrasted as in the later stanzas of the poem when he says “me” - final acceptance that it was him