English: Remains key points
- Created by: Beswick26
- Created on: 21-02-16 12:22
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- Remains
- Form
- Written with plural pronouns 'we'
- he's trying to shift the guilt off himself and share it with others
- present tense implies he's living the poem as he speaks
- Written with plural pronouns 'we'
- Language
- Conversational language
- implies that this is a usual day for the man, and nothing special
- 'blood shadow'
- something has to be there for there to be a shadow
- a shadow follows you around - as if he's being followed by the death
- implies darkness
- 'sleep,'' and 'dream,'
- words separated from the beginning of the line are like brief flashbacks of memory which haunt him
- 'I see'
- shows the vision haunts him
- 'I see broad daylight on the other side'
- suggests he's relived the memory so many times his mind has started to warp it
- Conversational language
- Guilt
- 'in my bloody hands'
- implies that he feels solely responsible for the death of the man
- 'in my bloody hands'
- Cesura
- 'and I swear'
- lengthens the pause between stanzas as if he's remembering in detail
- Sibilance
- 'sun-stunned, sand-smothered'
- long sounds show an ongoing memory
- 'sun-stunned, sand-smothered'
- Form
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