Remains Flashcards
Langauge: about the start
Poem starts of with ‘on another occasion’ implying that this is not the soldiers only unpleasant memory
3 language suggested
Guilt suggested= ‘probaly armed, possibly not’
Conflict suggested= ‘dug behind enemy lines’
Life and death suggested= ‘i see every round as it rips through his life’
Structure
Written as a monolouge: allows an insight into the personal experiences and thoughts of one induvidual
Evidence for structure
The effect of the colloquial language to tell the story of killing someone is shocking it makes it seem like an every day thing when killing someone shouldnt seem like an every day thing
Point of poem
The poem explores The event in a soldiers life which triggers PTSD it is worth nothing that the memory hurts him more than the event