REMAINS Flashcards
1
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“tosses” “carted off”
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Use of colloquial verbs sounds casual and normalises violence
Suggest conflict devalues human life
2
Q
“Rips through his life”
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Makes a graphic and disturbing image of war , sounds casual , suggests there is growing guilt and distress
3
Q
“one of them legs it up the road”
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Mirrors how soldiers were trained to detach from violence making the poem feel raw and unfiltered
4
Q
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
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The effect conflict has , always winning over people mentally even if suppressed into imatturity
Can infer “My” suggests he blames himself (effect of ptsd)
5
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“The drink and the drugs won’t flush him out”
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Suggests horrific imagery is stuck with him , character development
