Remains

Question 1

poet

Answer 1

Simon Armitage, he is direct in the poems
poet laureate, to represent biritish issues

Question 2

what does the title suggest

Answer 2

memopries in his mind, plural
decay of a body
survivor

Question 3

rhyme scheme enjambant

Answer 3

There is no regular rhythmic pattern and there are examples of enjambment, sometimes between stanzas, which adds to the sense of someone telling their story fairly naturally.

Question 4

on another occasion

Answer 4

start in medias res evokes inability to forget
suggests not the first time

Question 5

probably armed, possible not

Answer 5

echo of plosive sounds evoke duilemma, sense of doubt
refrain later on(dilemma haunting him when he is safe”

Question 6

” all” + collective pronouns second stanza

Answer 6

repeptiton x 3 share respinsability and therefore eguilt
contast start iof 3 stanza with I

Question 7

and somebody else and somebody else

Answer 7

repetition, no names, hiding their guilt

Question 8

pain itself, the image of agony

Answer 8

war, seriousness, suffering is noted.
powerful emotive metaphors create a clear impression of what violence can do to people: it transforms and destroys

Question 9

end of story except no really

Answer 9

turning point of the poem where the violent act starts to mentally affect the soldier-voice of the poem, recalls initial dilemma

Question 10

his blood-shadow stay

Answer 10

metaphor for guilt stays, it wil haunt him

Question 11

then I am home on leave
end of story except no really
then he is carted off in the back of the lorry

Answer 11

short sentences, trying to leave war behind

Question 12

But I blink / and he bursts again

Answer 12

The enjambment across stanzas here recreates the “blink” of the narrator and the uidea that his memoruies don’t stop ceates confusion. blink suggests that he wants to forget but he remembers
“burst” imagery = violent word

Question 13

“sleep”
“dream”

Answer 13

should be a quiet moment, contradicted by violent memories.

Question 14

And the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out -

Answer 14

luralised nouns of substance abuse create a clear sense of the trauma of the conflict on the soldier as - like many suffering from PTSD. trauma won’t go away, the “-“ suggests that it is an ongoing problem

Question 15

some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land

Answer 15

The violent adjectival elements and ther sibilance of the description help to reiterate the corrupting effects of war on people and envionments

Question 16

his bloody life in my bloody hands.

Answer 16

multiple and emotive meanings. The repetition of adjective “bloody” here is polysemous, meaning perhaps both the angry, frustrated swearing of a soldier and the literal blood-soaked “life” and “hands” of the incident, as well as the sense of guild felt by the soldier at having literal and metaphorical ‘blood on his hands’.
confrontation, himself as a killer, his own morality

Question 17

contrast in actions of soldiers

Answer 17

seriousness when alive and carelessness after, and PTSD when home

Question 18

LANGUAGE USED

Answer 18

d colloquial language is used throughout.
“MATE” shows personal connections of soldiers in war

Question 19

description of killing

Answer 19

imagery is graphic and brutal.
the detauils given convey the disturbance and trauma that the soldier carries with him long after he has returned home.

Question 20

structure

Answer 20

4 quatrains 2 lines to end
disintegrates towards the end

Question 21

type of peom

Answer 21

confessional (wordsworth)

Question 22

themes

Answer 22

guilt
dilemma
action and consequences
trauma
memories
violence
ws as a haunting experience