Remains

• What is a key theme in "Remains"?

  Psychological trauma
• What does "Remains" focus on regarding soldiers?

  PTSD and trauma
• What tone is used in "Remains"?

  Colloquial, conversational tone
• How does the ending of "Remains" reflect emotional breakdown?

  Ends in a two-line stanza
• What does the phrase “Probably armed, possibly not” convey?

  Repeated uncertainty
• What does “Tosses his guts back into his body” illustrate?

  Casual brutality
• What literary reference is made in “His bloody life in my bloody hands”?

  Macbeth reference