remains

Question 1

‘then im home on leave’

Answer 1

the narrator feels that going home will help which it doesn’t - caesura

Question 2

‘probably armed, possibly not’

Answer 2

repeated towards the start and end of the poem - gives the poem a cyclical structure - suggests the trauma the soldier is experiencing is inescapable

Question 3

‘blood shadow’ - ‘here in my head’

Answer 3

physical mark on the street - memory, the little remains

Question 4

‘somebody else’ - ‘his bloody life in my bloody hands’

Answer 4

repetition of somebody else is used to deflect the blame from just himself. shows he doesnt want to accept the blame. - second quote features at towards the end of the poem, this shows a shift, he takes responsibility, shows that him being alone forces him to deal with the consequences

Question 5

‘three of a kind all letting fly…rips through his life’

Answer 5

stanza break causes the reader to stop and emphasises the huge event that has ruined his life - forced break reflects the broken man the soldier became - reader is saying that the effects of war do not disappear after it is over.

Question 6

where does the action start

Answer 6

immediately puts the reader in the action, resembling the lack of ease that the soldiers would have felt in a warzone

Question 7

what does the chaotic opening to the poem reflect

Answer 7

shows how war is uncontrolled and unorganised, it is all chaos

Question 8

what does the shift from conversational language to horrific imagery mean and give example of each

Answer 8

has juxtaposed 2 types of language to highlight the before and after effect of war - ‘legs it up’ - shows how it is a normal occurrence for soldiers and then ‘every round rips through his life’