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Remains - Simon Armitage (Context (based on a British soldier who served…
Remains - Simon Armitage
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Form
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writer starts in collective first person but changes to singular first person and becomes more personal
Structure
begins as an amusing anecdote, but quickly turns into a graphic description of a mans death
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turning point at the start of the fifth stanza, where the soldiers tone, thoughts and emotions are changed by his guilt
"end of story, except not really"
Graphic imagery
imagery reminds the reader of the horrors of war but also shows how desensitised to violence and death the speaker was at the time, they had become part of his everyday life
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Colloquial Language
the first four stanzas have lots of chatty, familiar language which helps make the poem seem like a story. but this trivialises the mans death
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