Remains

Question 1

Themes in remains?

Answer 1

• effects of conflict
• guilt
• memory
• reality of conflict

Question 2

Who wrote remains?

Answer 2

Simon Armitage

Question 3

Quotes to show the effects of conflict?

Answer 3

‘I see every round as it ripe through his life ‘

‘Pain itself, the image of agony’

‘Then Im home on leave . But i blink ‘ PTSD

‘His bloody life on my bloody hands’

Question 4

Quotes to show the reality of warfare?

Answer 4

‘Tosses his guts back into his body’

‘Then he’s carted of the back of a lorry’ about the dead guy

’ his bloody life on my bloody hands’

Question 5

Quotes to show guilt?

Answer 5

’ probably armed, possibly not ‘ repeated to show regret

‘End of the story , except not really’

’ hes in my head when i close my eyes’

’ his bloody life in my bloody hands’

Question 6

Quotes for memory?

Answer 6

’ his blood shadow stays on the street , and out on patrol’

‘Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not’ he is thinking about it even when he is sleeping

‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’

Question 7

Structure in the poem?

Answer 7

• he used real life language ‘legged it ‘ , ‘my mate’
• the violent language is used with this to give a realness to what he is saying
• half rhyme and bouncy four beat rhythm create a sense of ironic jollitity , disrupted by shorter lines at key moments .
• enjambment also creates suspense