Remains

• what does the title REMAINS infer

  physical + psychological leftovers

  war

  whats leftover -> remembering

  forgotten
• Probably Armed, Possibly Not (infer)

  unknown

  (fear, risks)
• Tosses his guts back into his body (infer)

  "Tosses + Carted" - verb: violence, lack of humanity + respect

  - gathering life back together
• End of Story (infer)

  Irony: it's anything but over
• Blood-shadows (infer)

  stains are dark and menacing

  shadow of death hangs over the soilder
• But i blink......and he bursts again (infer)

  Enjambment: echoes memories constantly repeating through solders mind

  no break
• And the drink and the drugs won't flush him out (infer)

  always haunted even though he tries to wash it away

  (PTSD)
• He's here in my head when i close my eyes (infer)

  Theme: never truly gone

  -tormenting power
• his bloody life in my bloody hands (infer)

  Language - "bloody" used as a curse

  - solder is angry he is dealing with this

  - shows responsibility
• summary

  speaker describes what it is like to be sent out to deal with looters

  his friend puts a mans guts back inside his body
• key aspects

  symbolic afterlife of the victim in the war
• what did Armitage want to show

  he wanted to reflect concerns about people how are affected by the violence of war
• themes to compare with for the exams

  effects of conflicts

  reality of conflicts

  memory

  guilt

  individual experience