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Remains-Simon Armitage (Language & technique (Colloquial Language…
Remains-Simon Armitage
Language & technique
Colloquial Language
First half has chatty language making it sound like a story, however trivialises the mans death
Graphic Imagery
it is described in gory detail, this reflects the images the soldier saw
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Form
No regular line length or rhymeing scheme, sounds like story, starts first person plural then switches to first person singular sounds like a confession, in the last couplet it has the same metre which gives the feeling of finality and that the guilt will stick with him forever
Structure
It starts as a amusing annecdote however changes when he is describing the man tragic death, he then changes talking about his thoughts and how it has effected him, this turning point is called a Volta.
The poet
Simon Armitage was an English writer , poet and playwriter , he focused on the effect which war had on people, this was about a English soldier in Iraq
Themes
PTSD
Tries to blame the attack on his comrades and make it seem to himself that was want the cause of his death, he doesn't get the image out of his head
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