Remains
- Created by: PhoenixStorm
- Created on: 24-05-18 11:12
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- Remains
- Form
- Everyday English
- Personal tone
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme
- Moves from first person plural to first person singular
- Structure
- Amusing anecdote
- Graphic description of death
- Soldier's feelings of guilt
- Context
- Celebrated for down-to-earth subject matter and language
- Based on interview with a formeer British soldier who fought in Iraq
- Many of the poems revolve around flashbacks
- Quotes
- "dug in behind enemy lines"
- "near to the knuckle, here and now,/his bloody life in my bloody hands"
- Untitled
- "the drink and the drugs won't flush him out"
- "On another occasion, we get sent out"
- "one of them legs it up the road,/probably armed, possibly not"
- "Well myself and somebody else and somebody else/are all of the same mind"
- "His blood-shadow stays on the street"
- "End of story, except not really."
- "carted off in the back of the lorry"
- "I see every round as it rips through his life - /I see broad daylight on the other side"
- "I walk right over it week after week"
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