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1
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Simon Armitage creates a semantic field of urban references

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“Bank”, “road”, “lorry”

2
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Armitage uses adjectives reinforced with sibilante to convey the speaker’s impression of the country he was in.

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sun-stunned, sand-smothered

3
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This phrase is ironic, as the speaker continues to suffer the effects of war.

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End of story

4
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Tone is set up with this colloquial phrase. This engages the reader with the poets words

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Legs it

5
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Armitage creates a symbolic afterlife for the victim by using an…

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Internalised and more poetic voice when describing the effects of war. This contrasts with the anecdotal and colloquial recounting of the initial event.

6
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“Remains” is a title with various connotations

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Human remains; persistent memories; what is left of the soldier

7
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Armitage presents the dead man as physically being with the soldier

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He’s here

8
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Armitage uses repetitive phrasing and ideas to show how the soldier is haunted by…

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His own sense of responsibility for the life he contributed in taking

9
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Despite three soldiers being involved in the killing, the speaker leaves the reader with the recurring image of…

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His bloody life in my bloody hands

10
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Simon Armitage, poet of Remains, was named…

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Millenium Poet

11
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This quote suggests that this isn’t the only time that the soldier has experienced traumatic events

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On another occasion

12
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The soldier’s inability to escape what he’s done is evident in the line…

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he’s here in my head when I close my eyes

13
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The language of the poem is conversational and uses slang and colloquial language such as…

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‘mates’ and ‘legs it’

14
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The pace and rhythm of the poem gives the poem a…

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Conversational tone

15
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This final image is reminiscent of Macbeth where Lady Macbeth cannot wash away the blood from her hands following the murder of King Duncan. This represents strong feelings of guilt.

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bloody hands

16
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The first seven stanzas are?

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Quatrains which don’t rhyme

17
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The final stanza is different as it consists of only two lines. This change in structure could convey…

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the narrator’s traumatic state of mind and that the soldier cannot ‘flush’ away the memory of the killing.

18
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Verses one to four describe the killing while the rest of the poem describes the next four describe of the incident on the narrator.

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This could show how the actual killing is only half of the story

19
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This structural technique further shows someone speaking about a very personal experience.

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Enjambement

20
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This could reveal the soldier’s feelings of doubt. He is disturbed by the fact that the man he killed might have been innocent.

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Probably armed, possibly not