Remains and bayonet charge

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      • tense
        • Bayonet charge is in past tense
          • 3rd person memory, reader seems detached
        • remains is in present tense
          • living through it all the time, inescapable guilt from the events
      • formality
        • remains is informal, with casual language in a monologue, betraying the seriousness/guilt
          • impersonal
        • bayonet charge's informality is ironic
          • both show lack of care
            • remains is informal, with casual language in a monologue, betraying the seriousness/guilt
              • impersonal
      • emotion
        • guilt in remains
          • implied feeling of regret and lonliness
        • fear in bayonet charge
          • implied feeling of regret and lonliness
      • Theme of modern conflict
        • a soldier who is bewildered by gunfire around, possibly on the edge of death
        • a soldier who has experienced killing
      • death
        • the soldier in remains would rather be dead
        • the soldier in bayonet charge values life over death
    • modern conflict
    • emotion
    • language techniques
      • abstract nouns
      • verbs
      • simile

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