Remains Flashcards
1
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Title and theme
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Grim word,
Connotations of death and gore.
Theme of memory or guilt. ‘Drink and drugs couldn’t flush him out’
2
Q
Beginning
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‘On another occasion, we got sent out’
- ‘another’ shows repetition
- ‘sent out’ shows lack of choice.
3
Q
Soapaims
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- ‘probably armed, possibly not’
- ‘we’…’all’ (spreads guilt)
- ‘rips through his life’
- ‘blood-shadowed’
4
Q
Soapaims again
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- ‘sum-stunned, sand-smothered land’ (sibilance)
- ‘drink and drugs couldn’t flush him out’
5
Q
Stricter
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- no rhyme scheme
- caesura, “I’m home on leave. But I blink”
- colloquialism (makes it talking pace)
6
Q
Ending
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‘His bloody life in my bloody hands’
- ‘bloody’ double meaning
- grim imagery
- ‘my’ shows guilt his fault
7
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Context
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- poet = simon Armatige
- in the collection called ‘the not dead’
- about the Iraq war
- he said they ‘return in body but never fully in mind’
- link to PTSD
