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Remains
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5
Simon
Armitage
(b. 1963)
Theme - the title reflects that both physical
and psychological leftovers feature in the
poem.
Voice-St

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Remains
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5
Simon
Armitage
(b. 1963)
Theme - the title reflects that both physical
and psychological leftovers feature in the
poem.
Voice-St

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Remains 1 5 Simon Armitage (b. 1963) Theme - the title reflects that both physical and psychological leftovers feature in the poem. Voice-Starts midstory; speaker is relating an event he and at least two others were involved in GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE PAST AND PRESENT: POETRY ANTHOLOGY Context-based on a genuine soldiers, account of his experiences as related to Armitage. On another occasion, we get sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank. And one of them legs it up the road, probably armed, possibly not. Language - Strongly colloquial throughout. Snowing the soldiers English voice in a foreign land to emphasise his displacement. Well myself and somebody else and somebody else Theme-insistence on au three are all of the same mind, so all three of us open fire. Three of a kind all letting fly, and I swear I see every round as it rips through his life - pain itself, the image of agony. One of my mates goes by 15 and tosses his guts back into his body. Then he's carted off in the back of a lorry. -being involvedcloesn't make the speaker feel less responsible Language-metaphorical usage reflects the impact it had on the Sondier. 10 I see broad daylight on the other side. So we've hit this looter a dozen times Keytechnique - the everyday vanguage usa euphemism for the and he's there on the ground, sort of inside out, mans intestines naving been Spilled by the gunfire. Language-verbs imply desensitisation...

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to Vioreher and lack of respect for human use. Keytechnique-crony, it's anything but over End of story, except not really. -Language-connotations of His blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol the shadow-like stain are I walk right over it week after week. 20 Then I'm home on leave. But I blink clark and menacing-like a death shadow that hangs Over the soldier. Structure-enjabment echoes memory constantly repeating through schauers mind there is no break from it. aqa.org.uk/english-e-library 37 and he bursts again through the doors of the bank. Sleep, and he's probably armed, possibly not. Dream, and he's torn apart by a dozen rounds. And the drink and the drugs won't flush him out - 25 he's here in my head when I close my eyes, dug in behind enemy lines, not left for dead in some distant, sun-stunned, sand-smothered land or six-feet-under in desert sand, but near to the knuckle, here and now, 30 his bloody life in my bloody hands. • Structure - enjanment echoes memory constantly repeating through scudiers mind- there u no break from a. Form-Irregular rythem and Parce of natural speech. Theme - the sandier is haunted by that one memory dispite attempts at self-medicating. Theme tormenting power of a single moment. Language- bloody` used as a Curse as well as litterally shows the soldiers anger that he has to live with this, as well as revealling nis clear sense of responsibility Sound-sublance combined with other constantsmaking this Jaming and slow, wke the sandter constantly tripping over this memory. Language-talom suggests it's hard to bear