Remains Flashcards
And one of them legs it up the road
probably armed, possibly not
What is the effect of casual register?
What is the solider thinking with the last line?
- makes soldiers sound like ordinary people
- rethinking what he’s done and if he actually had a right to shoot him
Well myself and somebody else and somebody else
What is the device used? What effect does it have?
Repetition dehumanises soldiers
Three of a kind all letting fly and I swear
I see every round as it rips through its life
What device is this and what’s the effect
Enjambment, imagery
Makes us see things in slow motion
I see every round as it ___ through his life
Rips
Pain itself, the image of agony
What is the device? What’s its message?
Metaphor, war turns people into pain
One of my ____ goes by
And _____ his guts back into his body
Then he’s ____ off in the back of a lorry
What is the method used with the two top missing words? What’s its message?
Mates
Tosses
Carted
Juxtaposition shows horror war exposes men to
End of story, except not really
What does the caesura suggest?
Expectation vs reality
Wants it to end
What does the wartime imagery suggest about the soldier
He is traumatised and it effected his identity (always in war)
His _____ life in my ______ hands
Bloody
Who is this written by?
Simon Armitage
