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Remains - Simon
Armitage
- 'I walk right over it week after
week' - Metaphor, always there, go
through it in head over and over
- No regular rhyme or
rhythm - Messed up mind
- Northern contemporary
language, natural speech
- 'We' - Pronoun, brotherhood, more
than one, personal experience
- Stanza 1-4 - Shooting,
Stanza 5-8 - After effect
- Gulf War
- 'End of story, except not really' -
Should be end, can't stop thinking
about it, can't forget
- 'One of my mates' -
Noun, chatty, informal
- 'Open fire' - Panic,
action
- The Not Dead
documentary
- 'Get sent out' - Follow
orders, made to do it
- 'On another occasion' -
Memory of many
- Unrhymed quatrains
- 'Tackle looters raiding a
bank' - Verb, prevent, stop
- 'Pain itself, the image of agony' -
Nouns, realisation of what they've
done to the man, brutality
- 'Legs it' - Coloqial, conversational,
links with character
- 'Probably armed, possibly not' - Adverb,
repetition, no real threat, unsure, guilt
- 'Three of a kind' -
Same job, together
- 'All of the same mind' - Same
intention, not individuals,
same thoughts
- 'So we've it this looter a dozen
times' - Informal, doesn't care,
no remorse, no name
- 'Letting fly' - Metaphor,
slang, bullets
- 'Somebody else and somebody else' -
Nameless, doesn't matter, personal,
comrades, unity, unclear memory
- '-' - Pause,
shock
- 'He's there on the ground, sort of
inside out' - Vague, enjambment,
powerful imagery
- 'I see every round as it rips
through his life' - Metaphor,
slow motion, see every bullet,
violent imagery
- 'I see broad daylight on the
other side' - Metaphor,
happens so quick, death
- 'Tosses his guts back into his body' -
Verb, dehumanising, worthless
- 'Drink and drugs won't flush him out' -
Metaphor, can't wash away memory,
detox, nothing helps, trying to forget
- 'I blink' - Verb, enjambment,
reality, clear mind, is it real?
- 'I'm home on
leave' - Escapism
- 'Blood-shadow stays' - Metaphor,
stained ground, stained into mind,
remains forever in memory
- 'Sleep' - Noun, should be
relaxing/peaceful, can't sleep,
disturbed sleep, no control
- 'Carted off in the back of a lorry' -
Discarded like rubbish, disregard,
not human
- 'He bursts again through the doors of the
bank' - Metaphor, verb, bursts into mind,
violent, still there, reliving, PTSD
- 'He's here in my head' -
Metaphor, alliteration,
won't leave, out of breath
- 'Dream' - Noun,
should be positive,
nightmare, no peace
- 'Dug in behind enemy
lines' - Metaphor, noun,
dug deep into mind
- 'Not left for dead' - Not
buried, haunting him,
didn't die at war
- 'Some distant, sun-stunned,
sand-smothered land' - Sibilance,
sinister, not at war, not noble
- 'His bloody life in my bloody hands' -
Metaphor, can't clear name, his blood on
hands, responsible, swearing/cursing