Remains - Simon Armitage

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

• No set rhyme scheme
• Enjambment - PTSD is never ending and interrupted his life
• Natural speech/conversational
• Monologue
• End stops/caesura

Question 2

Meaning

Answer 2

• What soldiers go through during war and how they are affected afterwards

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

• “tosses his guts back into his body”

Question 4

Language

Answer 4

• “some distant, sun-stunned, sand smothered land”
• “I walk right over it week over week”

Question 5

Effect

Answer 5

• To break stereotypes of soldiers - learning
• Realism of war and effects on soldiers
• Call for a change
• Awareness of PTSD