Remains Flashcards
1
Q
“On another occasion”
A
- Begins mid action
- Anecdotal Language (matter of fact)
2
Q
“Legs it” “Tosses his guts”
A
Colloquialism
3
Q
“Myself and somebody else and somebody else”
A
- Deflects blame
- Minimises role
4
Q
“Probably armed, possibly not”
A
- Guilt
- PTSD (effect of his actions)
- Repetition shows the conflicting ideas of the soldier
5
Q
“I see every round as it rips through his life”
A
- Violent metaphor (highlights soldiers guilt and shock)
- Different aspect of conflict (conflicting thoughts… mentally)
6
Q
“Then I’m home on leave.”
A
- Caesura
- Hoping for an end
7
Q
“and I swear/I see every round as it rips through his life”
A
- Enjambment
- Break highlights the moment the speaker becomes a broken man
8
Q
“Blood-shadow”
A
- Memory of the man
- Blood = death
- Shadow = memories lingering
9
Q
“One of my mates goes by/and tosses his guts back into his body”
A
- Juxtaposition
- Severity of event is compared with relaxed and careless mannerisms
- Colloquialism
- Imagery… binmen
10
Q
“Some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land”
A
- Sibilance
- Oxymoron
11
Q
“His bloody life in my bloody hand”
A
- MY… shift in responsibility (‘somebody else and somebody else’) responsibility taken
- Macbeth reference
- Raw & harsh image conveying the speakers unstable mental state of guilt after war (PTSD)
12
Q
Speaker?
A
Guardsman Tromans (Basra, Iraq)
13
Q
Collection?
A
The Not Dead
- “These are poems of survivors”
- “Men who return from war in body but never wholly, in mind”
14
Q
Main Themes?
A
- Guilt
- After-effects of war
- PTSD
- Mental and physical conflict
15
Q
Anti War or Pro War?
A
Anti War
