remains- simon armitage

• "myself and somebody else and somebody else" -ambiguity/ anonymuous
• "all of the same mind... all of us open fire" -mechanical indoctrination -depersonalisation -loss of identity
• "see every round as it rips through his life" -unapologetically violent -desensetised
• "sort of inside out" -colloquial quality
• "image of agony" -graphic/scarring/horrific imagery
• "tosses his guts back into his body" -desensitised -colloquial
• "his blood-shadow stays on the street" -indellible stain -traumatic memory
• "but i blink" -pivotal moment undermined
• "drinks and drugs wont flush him out" -trying to purge himself of the memory -guilty conscious
• "some distant, sand-smothered land" -cant keep memory in that far-flung land
• "his bloody life in my bloody hands" -intertextual reference (Macbeth) -haunted
• themes: -guilt -violence -war
• form and structure: -free verse (authentic colloquial spoken quality) -beginning collective responsibility to individual accountability
• language: -horrific gruesome imagery
• tone: -colloquial -guilted