Remains Key Quotes

Question 1

The volta in the poem remains

Answer 1

“End of story,except not really”

Question 2

Colloquial language examples in remains

Answer 2

“And one of them legs it up the road”

Question 3

Almost humourous language using biblical imagery in remains when he kills the looter

Answer 3

I see every round as it rips through his life,I see broad daylight on the other side

Question 4

Quote from remains that uses almost humerous language to show the looter as rubbish

Answer 4

Tosses his guts back into his body,and he’s carted off in the back of a lorry

Question 5

Quote from remains that shows his guilt,last line

Answer 5

His bloody life in my bloody hands

Question 6

Quote from remains showing his uncertainty over whether or not he should’ve killed the man

Answer 6

Probably armed possibly not

Question 7

Quote from remains showing his remorse and the reminder of his actions

Answer 7

His blood shadow stays on the street,and out on patrol I walk right over it week after week

Question 8

Quote from remains that show him supposingly being away from it all but not really

Answer 8

Then i’m home on leave.But I blink
and he bursts again through the doors of the bank

Question 9

Grotesque imagery from remains however also almost childish

Answer 9

So we’ve hit this looter a dozen times and he’s there on the ground sort of inside out

Question 10

Context for remains

Answer 10

Simon Armitage is an english playwright, poet and revolutionist. This poem is from his collection “Not dead” where he interviewed ex-soldiers on their experiences

Question 11

Structure in Remains

Answer 11

Heavy enjambment (can’t seperate past/present
Shift in view of responsibility (first and third person)
Caesura [shows interrupting of life (ptsd)]
Colloquial Language at beginning contrasts to solemn language after volta

Enjambment - the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of line or stanza
Caesura - a phrase end especially occuring in middle of a line