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
- poem becomes more personal
- Starts off with 'we' but changes to 'I'
- makes it sound like a story
- in the final couplet, both lines have the same metre
- gives a feeling of finality and suggests that the guilt will always be there
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme
- 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
- poem becomes more personal
- Starts off with 'we' but changes to 'I'
- makes it sound like a story
- in the final couplet, both lines have the same metre
- gives a feeling of finality and suggests that the guilt will always be there
- No regular line length or rhyme scheme
- 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
- Remains
- turns very graphic
- 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
- Man's death is described in gory detail
- 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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