Remains

Question 1

Form

Answer 1

• No regular line length making it sound like a story
• Speaker starts with First person plural “we” but changes to First person singular “i”
• Peom becomes person like a confession
• In the final couplet both lines have the sam metre- gives a feeling of finality & hints guilt will stay with the soldier

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

-Begins with mid-action “on another occasions”
-Poe, begins with an amusin anecdote, but quickly turns into a graphic description
-Turning point in 5 stanza
-Repetition of “ somebody else to “my
”

Question 3

Graphic imagery

Answer 3

• Mans death is described in gory detail with the implacation that his “guts” have split
• Imagery reminds us the horrors of war but also shows how desensitised to violence & death the speaker was

Question 4

Colloquial language

Answer 4

First 4 stanzas have lots of chatty, familiar language which helps it be a story, however thus language is trivialises the mans death

Question 5

Repetition

Answer 5

-Words are repeated to reflect the way the killing is repeated

Question 6

Key points

Answer 6

• Poem explores the events in a soldiers life which in turn triggers ptsd
• Colloquial nature of the speaker voice is used to create a sense of heightened realism to the piece
• Poet suggests a conflict in the speakers mind an avoidance of the reality of what happened which haunts him

Question 7

Feelings & attitudes

Answer 7

-Nonchalance: A causal attitude towards the death of the man, tone at the start was anecdotal
-Guilt:Speakers can’t get the memory out of his mind, he is tormented by thoughts of the man
-Poem ends with the s-eaker acknowledging
That he has blood on his hands