Remains Flashcards
Who wrote Remains
Simon Armitage
when was it written
1963
what devices give us an impression of natural speech
short clauses, enjambment, colloquialisms and economical unadorned language- creates the sense of real-life testimony
What type of rhyme is present
half-rhymes and a bouncy 4 beat rhythm creates a sense of ironic jollity, disrupted by shorter lines at key moments
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Give an example of enjambment and what it does
On another occasion, we get sent out
reflects the continuing nature of memories of war
Give some context of the poem
Poem is based on real-life soldiers experiences in iraq and his post traumatic stress disorder. The first person narrative mimics the interview armitage conducted
what quotation emphesies how many people were effected by the disorder
Well myself and somebody else and somebody else
What quotation represents the lasting effects and memories
pain itself, the image of agony
End of story, except not really
give a quotation which links directly with the title
his blood shadow stays on the street
the “remains” of his murder
War created this idea of the futility of life give a quotation to back this up
“tosses his guts back into his body”
what quotation is repeated throughout poem
“probably armed, possibly not”
whats they last line
his blood life in my bloody hands- blood stains- blood remains- ends on a 2 line stanza
the looter has taken his sanity- not his money
