Remains

Question 1

poet

Answer 1

Simon Armitage

Question 2

• shift of accountability
• collective blame
• order

Answer 2

we get sent out

Question 3

• guilt creeps in
• shift of accountability
• attempt of justification

Answer 3

probably armed, possibly not

Question 4

• syndetic listing
• impersonal
• shared accountability
• loss of individuality and humanity with violence

Answer 4

myself and somebody else and somebody else

Question 5

• anaphora
• sensory imagery
• reliving memories

Answer 5

• stanza 3
• I see every round…
• I see broad daylight

Question 6

colloquial language throughout

Answer 6

• legs it
• tosses his guts back into his body
• sort of inside out

Question 7

• inescapable memory
• light imagery

Answer 7

blood-shadow

Question 8

metaphor for memory

Answer 8

• he bursts again through the doors of the bank

Question 9

• final line
• his life is taken like the looters

Answer 9

• his bloody life in my bloody hands

Question 10

form and structure

Answer 10

• regular quatrains + 2 line stanza : rigidity of war
• irregular meter: flow of emotion
• caesura and enjambment throughout: unstoppable memory
• confessional tone

Question 11

comparisons

Answer 11

• the emigree (memory)
• war photographer: terrors of war, trying to forget vs trying to reveal