Flashcards
English Poetry - Power and Conflict
Cards in this deck (8)
- 1Remains (AO1) "On another occassion we got sent out"- Starts in media-res to put the reader right into the coversation
- The poem being in free verse makes it appear as very cassual like your having a conversation with the person - 2Remains (AO2) "On onother occassion we got sent out"- Armitage uses adjective another (means in addition)
- could show these soldiers have faced countless traumatic situations like this - 3Remains (AO1) "Probably armed, possibly not"- Quote shows soldiers are put in such dangerous situations that they have to just asume people are armed
- 4Remains (AO2) "Probably armed, possibly not"- Armitage uses the adverb posibly which surgests there is a chance the looter isn't armed
- 5Remains (AO1) "His blood-shaddow stays on the street, and out on patrol I walk right over it week on week"- Quote shows that the soldier after weeks still can't get these violent and gory images out of his head
- 6Remains (AO2) "His blood-shaddow stays on the street, and out on patrol I walk right over it week on week"- Use of the metaphor blood shaddow
- Surggests that the soldier is haunted by the lifeless body of the looter - 7Remains (AO3) Context- Soldiers who have gone to war often have significant impact on their mental health facing conditions like shellshock and PTSD
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