Remains Flashcards
His _____ life in __ _____ _____.
His bloody life in my bloody hands.
Bloody - Expletive, Harsh Distress
Barbaric death
“myself ___ somebody ____ and ____________ ____”
“myself and somebody else and somebody else”
Syndetic, cramming - Placing blame on others
C________ L_______
Colloquial Language
“Then __ ____ on ______. But I _____”
“Then im home on leave. But I Blink”
Caesura, the “but” shows how suffering is incessant
What do colloquialisms such as “Sort of Inside out” and “Bloody” have?
Show how violence and suffering are commonplace.
“S__ S_____, Di____, Desert S___”
Sun stunned, distant, desert sand.
Sibilance
“Sun stunned” - Nature’s beauty
Colloqialism’s have what effect?
Raw, Real accounts of PTSD
“Blood ______ on the ______ (…) Walk right over it _____ after ____”
“Blood Shadow on the street (…) Walk right over it week after week”
Contemplation
“Blood shadow” - Stain, stamped
P____ a____ P_____ not
Possible Armed, probably not
Anaphora, shows the contemplation and trauma and the effects
“_______ away in a _____”
Carted away in a lorry
Dehumanises the robber
Why does the poem begin “in medias res”?
“On Another Occasion”
Confusion, exposure to trauma and fear
“___ then I ____ and he bursts _____”
“But then I blink and he bursts again”
Plosive
Enjambment separates memory and reality
“p___ i____, image __ ______”
pain itself, image of agony
“t___ apart by a d____ r_____”
torn apart by a dozen round
“r______ r____ through h____ l___”
round rips through his life
