Remains

Question 1

Opening line, represents

Answer 1

“On another occasion, we get sent out to takle looters raiding a bank
Colloquial language, media res,
gives a casual tone to poem.
Also reflects the soldiers confusion as they are not emotionally prepared for horrors of war
Enjament shows casual tone

Question 2

Gruesome imagery of the murderd man shows,

Answer 2

“Sort of inside out,
Pain itself, the image of agony”

Question 3

lack of controll with emotions and taumer from war

Answer 3

“Then I’m homeon leave. But I blink
and he burts again through thedoors of the bank”
Enjambment across stanzas - seperating reality from memory. Lots of plosives are used to show violence.

Question 4

Volta shows him showing pain it caused him

Answer 4

“End of story, exept not really.” Shows this is where the story ends but the pain caused by it is more significant

Question 5

How does poem end

Answer 5

“His bloody life in my bloody hands”
The homonyms in bloody reflect the anger that the man is in with himself and link to Macbeth.
The personal pronoun show taking responsability

Question 6

Begining of poem trying to shift the blame

Answer 6

“Well myself and somebody else and somebody else” - repertition and synthetic list shows shifting blame
Contrast to “his bloody life in my bloody hands”

Question 7

Structure show

Answer 7

• No rhyme scheme, shows conversational tone.
• 4 line stanzas, last stanza 2 shows remains.
• Enjambent and caspesora throughout shows lack of control

Question 8

When, why was it wrote and for what

Answer 8

-For the “The Not Death” to raise awarness.
- 2008. Simon Armitage.
-Make awareness for PTSD after Iraq wars and reprecutions for individuals after war

Question 9

Context about Simon Armitage

Answer 9

Interviewed real veterens from Iraq war in 2008.
Shows how the PTSD was more impactful that the deployment