Remains Flashcards
Start of the poem showing how this was normal
“On another occasion”
Showing a sense of doubt
“Probaly armed possibly not”
Metaphor showing violent imagry
“Rips through his life”
Rips showed how easy it was
Showing the casual and brutal nature of this
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
Reference to Macbeth
“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
The singualr possesive pronoun shows that he is now taking responsibility
Who wrote the poem?
Simon Armitage
What are the connetatios of remains (the title)
Less than
Left over/ unwanted
The narrator is no longer the man who he was before
What series of poems is Remains from?
Called “not dead” it is about soldiers who have returned from conflict
What does the poem describe?
Guardmen Troman’s experience in Bassra (Iraq)
Form and Structure
There is no regualar line length or rhymn scheem making it soind like a story / it could suggest a lack of controll or chlarity in his mind
The pronouns change from “we” to “my” to make it sound like a confession alsomto show that he is accepting guilt
It starts as an ammusing stoy but ends in a bad way
4 lines in each stanza shows how he is trying to keep controll except for the final stanza which suggests that he can’t keep controll and that half of him has been left in Iraq
Lots of collocual language is used and graphic imagry
There are some caesuras and enjarbment showing that he can’t controll his emotions
Feelings and attitudes
Guilt
Power of man used to destroy man
Abbandonment from his country
Showing how they thought it wan’t a serious accasion
“One of them legs it up the road”
Collocual language
He is trying to spread the blame
“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else”
Refference to Poker forshadowing his demise and him drinking and gambaling?
“Three of a kind all letting fly
Showing how this experience has effected him
“Sort of inside out”
Childish imagry shows he can’t comprehend this in a adult way in a childish way
Where is the volta?
Start of the 5th stanza
Forshadowing how this person will haunt him forever
“His blood-shadow stays on the street”
Showing how he wanted his to be the end
“End of story, except not really
Showing how the victum has stained the man’s memory even afterwards
Explain
“Then I’m home on leave. But I blink”
Short simple sentence suggests that he willmforget the sceen when he is at home however the caesura shows how his sentences arn’t controlled and suggests that he will still remember
Alliteration shows how
Repetition of a phrase earlier shows how he was never really sure
“Probaly armed, possibly not”
