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Remains
Structure
Starts in media res
First half of the poem describes the shooting
First person plural
Sharing guilt
No rhyme scheme
Second half of the poem show how the shooting affected the soldier
First person singular
Feeling alone
8 stanzas
First 7 are quatrains
Last stanza only has 2 lines
Enjambment
Monologue
Themes
Conflict
War
Memory
Guilt
Language
Title is ambiguous
"Remains"
Remains of a memory
Death/decay
Remains of a life
Graphic imagery
Colloquialisms
Anecdotal
Key Quotes
"His bloody life in my bloody hands"
"Probably armed possibly not"
"His blood-shadow stays on the street"
"Tosses his guts back into his body"
Context
Simon Armitage
Probation officer for 6 years
English poet
From a collection called "The Not-Dead"
Links
Kamikaze
War photographer