remains Flashcards
summarise remains
speaker starts in media re about a looter and he and 2 others shoot 12 times and kill him. looter looks like pain itself and his guts are thrown into a lorry then speaker is back at home sleeping and dreaming and seeing the man - no matter what drugs he takes - the looters stuck behind enemy lines
“myself and somebody else and somebody else”
2 analysises
shows how he is able to cope with grief because his memory is in a trauma-induced hazy- cant even remeber the people he was with
or he is trying to justify himself because he is not soley responsible
“end of story, except not really.”
later down the stanze
“but i blink// and he bursts”
caesure creates sense of finality he will be able to excape the horror of his action
uses (structure) enjambment to merge reality and memory, past and present - speaker can never be free
“drinks and the drugs won’t flush him out”
next stanze
“dug in behind enemy lines”
flush has unpleasant connotations showing him self-medicating because the death is so entrenched in his mind
inner-conflict
overall form of remains
uses first person voice showing his isolation from anyone else
narrated in present tense though these are past experiences - it’s his PTSD
