Remains

Question 1

Who wrote remains ?

Answer 1

Simon armitage

Question 2

Context of remains

Answer 2

Group of soldiers shoot a mean dead, death described in graphic detail.
Soldier doesn’t know weather the man was armed or not(plays on his mind )
He’s haunted by it

Question 3

Form of remains

Answer 3

No regular rhyme scheme or line length - a story is being told
Poem begins with “we” then changes to “I” - makes it sound like a confession and more personal
In the final couplet both lines have the same metre- gives a feeling of finality and thay the feeling with stay within the soldier

Question 4

3 quotations from remains …

Answer 4

“His blood shadow stays on the street” (link to war photographer ) “ dug in behind enemy lines “ also links to this that the event is engraved in his mind
The couplet” his bloody life in my blood hands “ accepting responsibility. Possible allusion to Macbeth, trying get rid of blood stained on hands

Question 5

What’s the difference between stanza before stanza 5 and after ? Remains

Answer 5

Before stanza 5 he is talking in a coloquial tone, however in stanza 5 there’s is a clear volta where emotion and guilt submerge the speaker