Remains

Question 1

Start of the poem showing how this was normal

Answer 1

“On another occasion”

Question 2

Showing a sense of doubt

Answer 2

“Probaly armed possibly not”

Question 3

Metaphor showing violent imagry

Answer 3

“Rips through his life”

Rips showed how easy it was

Question 4

Showing the casual and brutal nature of this

Answer 4

“Tosses his guts back into his body”

Question 5

Reference to Macbeth

Answer 5

“His bloody life in my bloody hands”

The singualr possesive pronoun shows that he is now taking responsibility

Question 6

Who wrote the poem?

Answer 6

Simon Armitage

Question 7

What are the connetatios of remains (the title)

Answer 7

Less than
Left over/ unwanted

The narrator is no longer the man who he was before

Question 8

What series of poems is Remains from?

Answer 8

Called “not dead” it is about soldiers who have returned from conflict

Question 9

What does the poem describe?

Answer 9

Guardmen Troman’s experience in Bassra (Iraq)

Question 10

Form and Structure

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Feelings and attitudes

Answer 11

Guilt
Power of man used to destroy man
Abbandonment from his country

Question 12

Showing how they thought it wan’t a serious accasion

Answer 12

“One of them legs it up the road”

Collocual language

Question 13

He is trying to spread the blame

Answer 13

“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else”

Question 14

Refference to Poker forshadowing his demise and him drinking and gambaling?

Answer 14

“Three of a kind all letting fly

Question 15

Showing how this experience has effected him

Answer 15

“Sort of inside out”

Childish imagry shows he can’t comprehend this in a adult way in a childish way

Question 16

Where is the volta?

Answer 16

Start of the 5th stanza

Question 17

Forshadowing how this person will haunt him forever

Answer 17

“His blood-shadow stays on the street”

Question 18

Showing how he wanted his to be the end

Answer 18

“End of story, except not really

Question 19

Showing how the victum has stained the man’s memory even afterwards

Explain

Answer 19

“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

Question 20

Repetition of a phrase earlier shows how he was never really sure

Answer 20

“Probaly armed, possibly not”