remains - Simon armitage

Question 1

what does this poem symbolise

Answer 1

the true horror of war as well as the effects of conflict on domestic life

Question 2

how does the writer present the mans guilt

Answer 2

uses repetition of ,” myself and somebody else and somebody else.” shows his effort to shift the blame

Question 3

how does the writer present the mental effect of this event

Answer 3

“repetition of “possibly armed, possibly not.” suggests the man still feels and thinks the same way he did during the event showing the trauma

Question 4

how does the writer suggest conflict effects one even after the violence is done

Answer 4

“end of story, except not really.”

Question 5

how does the writer present the mental effects as a fever

Answer 5

“the drink and the drugs won’t flush him out” the word flush suggests he needs to flush the event like you flush a fever or illness out of your body

Question 6

how does arbitrage present the dead man as a ghost haunting him

Answer 6

“his blood shadow stays on the street”