Remains

• Context

  written for 'The Not Dead'( Channel 4) , raise awareness PTSD// 2007// based on Guardsman Tromans- changed public opinion of war after Iraw
• Structure

  heavy enjambment( cant separate past and present) // shift view of responsibility // caesura( interrupt life)
• Themes:

  Injustice of war

  Trauma and guilt
• Quote: 'Probably armed, possibly not'

  • Reminds the readers of the doubt and anxiety which soldiers must deal with
  • Instinct to assume people are armed, assumption of danger
  • Doubt is the key driver of guilt and cripples him
• Quote: ' I swear I see every round as it rips through his life'

  • Graphic imagery
  • Contrasts the previous vagueness
  • 'His life' shows that the person is thinking than more just of the physical damage inflicted
  • 'Rip' portrays the brutal nature of war'
  • Present tense shows the suffering of the soldier is still there
• 'His blood shadow stays on the street'

  • He's stuck their like the stain on his memory, he can't go foward
  • Shadow symbolises the guilt that follows him
• Quote: ' Tosses his guts back into his body'

  • Gruesome imagery
  • Indicates the reality of war and lack or honour which is typically associated with the job
  • 'tosses' shows that they are desensitived and careless.