Remains by Simon Armitage
- Created by: Nicole18jc
- Created on: 25-02-19 08:53
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- Remains by Simon Armitage
- Context
- born in 1963
- he worked as a probation officer until 1994
- professor of poetry at the university of leeds
- has presented many tv documentaries
- was commissioned to write a collection of poems about WW1
- Emotions
- guilt of previous events
- harm and horror
- pain and grief
- violence
- positivity and negativity
- Language
- colloquial language
- chatty language
- casual at first
- "probably armed, possibly not"
- "sort of inside out"
- "tossed his guts back into his body"
- "i'm home on leave. but I blink"
- "drink and the drugs wont flush him out"
- Past and Present
- written as a memory
- about WW1
- for the current audience
- hard for the poet to get his words across
- Form and Structure
- enjambment and caesura
- no regular line length or rhyme
- 1. starts off with an amusing anecdote
- 2. graphic description of death
- 3. guilt
- repetition
- Conflicts
- power of war and conflict
- power of humans
- weakness of humans
- guilt and regret
- Context
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