Remains - Power and Conflict


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  • Created on: 12-04-21 13:17
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  • Remains
    • Simon Armitage
    • Form
      • No regular line length or rhyme scheme
        • makes it sound like a story
          • Starts off with 'we' but changes to 'I'
            • poem becomes more personal
              • sounds like a confession
      • in the final couplet, both lines have the same metre
        • gives a feeling of finality and suggests that the guilt will always be there
    • Colloquial Language
    • Repetition
      • words repeated to reflect that the killing is being repeated in the speaker's mind
  • poem begins as if it's going to be an amusing anecdote
    • turns very graphic
      • to a description of a man's death
    • Structure
      • Remains
        • Simon Armitage
        • Form
          • No regular line length or rhyme scheme
            • makes it sound like a story
              • Starts off with 'we' but changes to 'I'
                • poem becomes more personal
                  • sounds like a confession
          • in the final couplet, both lines have the same metre
            • gives a feeling of finality and suggests that the guilt will always be there
        • Colloquial Language
        • Repetition
          • words repeated to reflect that the killing is being repeated in the speaker's mind
      • clear Volta at the beginning of the fifth stanza, where the soldiers tones are changed
  • Graphic imagery
    • Man's death is described in gory detail
      • 'guts' - split out on the ground
    • Imagery reminder of horror of War
      • death and violence became part of his everyday life
  • first four stanzas have chatty, familiar language
    • makes it sounds like a story
  • Feeling and attitudes
    • Guilt - speaker can't get memory out of his head
    • Tormentedby thoughts and wondering whether the man was killed or not

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