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Remains
Description
GCSE English (Poetry) Mind Map on Remains, created by Spike Richards on 11/12/2016.
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Spike Richards
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Remains
Context
A group of soldiers shoot a looter trying to rob a bank. He dies and his death is described in graphic detail
One of the soldiers, the narrator, cannot get over his guilt
PTSD
Based on an account from a British soldier who served in Iraq
BY SIMON ARMITAGE
Language
Graphic Imagery
The looter's death is described in gory, graphic detail
The imagery illustrates the horrors of war but also how the soldier has become desensitised to violence
Colloquial
Frequent colloquial language in the first four stanzas makes the poem seem more anecdotal
Trivialises the looter's death
Repetition
Reflects the way the killing is repeated in the soldier's mind
Form and Structure
No regular line length or rhyme scheme is reminiscent of a story or anecdote
Links to colloquialisms
The speaker starts with a plural pronoun ("we") but later changes to a singular pronoun ("I")
This makes the poem more personal and almost like a confession
In the final couplet (which is also the only two-line stanza), both lines have the same metre
This creates a sense of finality an suggests that the soldiers guilt will stay with him forever
The poem begins as if it's going to be an amusing anecdote but quickly becomes graphic and violent
There's a clear volta at line 17 where the soldier's tone and thoughts are altered by his guilt
Linking to Other Poems
Effects of Conflict
Reality of Conflict
Memory
Guilt
Indiviual Experiences
Important Quotes
"legs it", "sort of inside out", "tosses", "carted off"
Colloquialisms trivialise looter's death
"guts", "dug in behind enemy lines", "I see broad daylight on the other side", "blood shadow"
Gruesome, gory, graphic details described casually emphasises how violence has become part of the soldier's everyday life
Development of sense of responsibility: "all" and "three" repeated, becomes "in my hands" later.
The poem becomes more personal after the line 17 volta: "End of story, except not really"
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