Remains - Simon Armitage

• • Dramatic monologue
  • Displays colloquialism - natural words of soldiers
  • Semantic field of violence
  • Cap. Troman (soldier) testimony
• ’Probably armed, possibly not’
• ‘His blood shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol’
• ’Sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not’
• ’His bloody life in my bloody hands’
• • Semantic field of violence
  • Trauma and guilt
  • Lasting consequences
  • Conflict - man vs. man, man vs. mind